Trauma is an unfathomable puncturing of meaning lived as background
Evidence
The series is set three years after the Sudden Departure, and by now the event has become part of the assumed background of the characters’ lives: a vast epistemic void which they are simultaneously always ignoring and negotiating. The Sudden Departure is then like trauma as such: an unfathomable puncturing of meaning, a senseless spasm of sheer contingency. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 730
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Trauma acts from without; abreaction acts from within. — Alain Ehrenberg, The Weariness of the Self: Diagnosing…, 246; Unimaginable trauma is unrememberable precisely because it is repression itself — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 291; Trauma loses its external character once folded into psychic meaning-making — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 850 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Trauma loses its external character once folded into psychic meaning-making
#responds-to(0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 850 - Trauma wounds are temporal ruptures born of the nullified past
#exemplifies(0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 4370 - The self fragments into subject and object when stress ruptures immediate experience
#qualifies(0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 22 - The sheer volume of trauma erases event intention and interpretation.
#exemplifies(0.72) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 3276