Ray’s Reading Response

This week we talk about personal trauma. Comparing the article “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading” and the artwork “Reparative Memory”, a strong sensation came to me, let me fly back to what I learned this semester such as “Remembering”, “Repeating” and “Body Practice” and all of them can connect to the personal trauma. As Taylor notes on the syllabus “Trauma is never just personal, and never just political. Does personal trauma stem from one definable ‘event’? Or can we think of ‘personal’ trauma as always, to some degree, trauma as inter-relational and social?” From my perspective, personal trauma can either be personal injury privately or political trauma through individuality. Recently, we looked through some of Latin America’s political events such as the H.I.J.O.S movements or Villa Grimaldi event. It let me feel about the person who experienced the traumatic activities like Matta, and how he acted in reparative memory of his traumatic experience.

Reparative memory pertains to the ways individuals and societies process and remember past traumas in a manner that aids healing and reconciliation. It is significant in therapy, post-conflict recovery, and addressing historical injustices. It involves a constructive engagement with traumatic memories, reshaping the narrative to emphasize resilience, survival, and growth. After experiencing trauma, the way people see things will be different. They had the traumatic experience, letting them avoid bad things from happening again. For reparative reading, people changed the degree to read articles, it was different from paranoid reading, letting them accept the opinions of the authors. I think reparative reading and reparative memory have the same sensation in the people who experienced the traumatic activities.