Childhood violence yields its effects only later when triggered by place.

Evidence

What I want to draw from Freud’s photographic metaphor is precisely its concept of effects being distanced in time from the events which produced them. This is the psychoanalytic horror which The Shining anatomises. Violence has been imprinted upon Jack “psychical apparatus” long ago, in childhood (the novel details at some length the abuse that Jack has himself suffered at the hands of his own father), but it requires the “spectral spaces” of the Overlook hotel to transform those impressions from an “exposure” into a “picture”, an actual act of violence. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 542

Categorization

  • QUESTION: The photographic-developing model of trauma — exposure stored, developed later — deserves more scrutiny as a mechanism.
  • XREF: connects to: Terrorism can re-enact unresolved childhood confrontations with parental authority.; Childhood abuse and neglect predictably raise arrest and violent crime rates decades later — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 10798; Everyone carries a latent violence that specific conditions can trigger — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 474 (+3 more)

Broader Connections