Mid-Term Response: Remembering and Performing Colonial Trauma


gm3133@nyu.edu Through time there have been very diverse understandings of what trauma is, who can be traumatized, and what can cause it. If, for instance, for the first psychoanalysts (Freud, Charcot, Janet) trauma was an illness that could be cured through talking-therapy, then only susceptible —sometimes abject— subjects could suffer from it, and, hence, the […]