Narrative repair of wounds mirrors neural repair and sustains it.
Evidence
There is thus a very close relation between the metamorphosis of an identity that survives with a wound and the story of this metamorphosis—as if the plasticity of writing supported that of systems; as if writing itself repaired the wound that, as it repairs itself, nourishes writing. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 3893
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to Malabou’s core concept of destructive plasticity — the mutated trace here meets the narrative/neuropsychology tradition. — connects to: A novel’s form can model the communicative repair of trauma — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 460; Wounds and scars function as symbolic surfaces for exchanging bodily signs — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 372; Globalized trauma mirrors brain damage as transformation without sublation — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 4348 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- A novel’s form can model the communicative repair of trauma
#expands(0.85) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 460 - Wounds and scars function as symbolic surfaces for exchanging bodily signs
#corroborates(0.80) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 372 - Fiction can replay historical trauma with a wished-for different outcome
#expands(0.80) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 140 - Globalized trauma mirrors brain damage as transformation without sublation
#qualifies(0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 4348 - The brain always attempts post-lesion reorganization even when it fails
#corroborates(0.72) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 102 - Narrative conflict resolution trains audiences to accept false reconciliation
#complicates(0.70) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 148