Awakening to and from the Traumatic Lacuna

Dana Amir

doi:10.1080/00332828.2018.1450602

Awakening to and from the Traumatic Lacuna

Dana Amir

Department of Counseling and Human Development

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Abstract

This paper presents a close reading of testimonies of Holocaust survivors. This close reading approaches the ways in which traumatic language breaks its own rules and generates a syntactic lacuna, opening up an abyss in the structure of the sentence. While analyzing these texts, the paper will give special attention to breakdowns in language, assuming that this is the witnesses' way of inserting an experience of ambiguity into the ostensibly coherent flow of speech.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	303-321
Number of pages	19
Journal	Psychoanalytic Quarterly
Volume	87
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2018.1450602
State	Published - 3 Apr 2018

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Keywords

Trauma
lacuna
language
testimony
witness

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Developmental and Educational Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Psychiatry and Mental health

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