This week the text that caught my attention was Trauma, explorations in memory, by Cathy Caruth. She starts informing us that only in 1980 the American Psychiatric Association officially acknowledged “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder” (PTSD).

I believe it to be interesting and terrorizing the affirmation of the inability to fully witness the event as it occurs, and to only be able to do so being a witness and refém, hostage, of oneself. As Freud points out, after a traumatic event, the people how suffered it have in common the characteristic of repeatedly bringing the patient back into reliving the traumatic situation. And this takes us to Remembering, Repeting and Working through, “the greater the resistance, the more extensively acting out (repetition) replace remembering” (p.151).