The sheer volume of trauma erases event intention and interpretation.

Evidence

The sheer number of these traumatic events tends to neutralize their intention, such that they assume the unmotivated character of the chance, uninterpretable event. The enemy, today, is hermeneutics. This is why it falls to neurology, psychoanalysis, and neuropsychoanalysis, starting from the redefinition of trauma, to produce the sense of this war on sense. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 3276

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Black memory collapses past and present betrayals into one trauma — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America…, 456; Trauma wounds are temporal ruptures born of the nullified past — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 4370; Ballard moves from re-staging trauma with meaning to re-staging it meaninglessly — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 154 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Black memory collapses past and present betrayals into one trauma #expands (0.82) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 456
• Trauma wounds are temporal ruptures born of the nullified past #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 4370