Brain injury cannot be fantasized or represented.

Evidence

One does not fantasize a brain injury; one cannot even represent it. Cerebrality is thus the causality of a neutral and destructive accident-without reason. We know that it does not take much-a few vas­ cular ruptures, minimal in terms of their size and scope-to alter identity, sometimes irreversibly. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 366

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Neurological trauma can create an identity without origin or memory — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 3217; Cerebral trauma victims need recognition that bypasses psychic translation — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 351; Cerebral trauma victims need a mode of speech outside psychoanalytic interpretation (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Cerebral trauma victims need recognition that bypasses psychic translation #complicates (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 351
• Neurological trauma can create an identity without origin or memory #expands (0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 3217
• Cerebral trauma victims need a mode of speech outside psychoanalytic interpretation #expands (0.78)
• Globalized trauma mirrors brain damage as transformation without sublation #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 4348