Trauma loses its external character once folded into psychic meaning-making

Evidence

Sexuality is the hermeneutic adventure of psychic energy. T he exogenous event, when it occurs, will necessarily be separated from its own exteriority as it is folded into the internal adventure of sense. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 850

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines sexuality as the hermeneutic conversion of raw energy into representable meaning keyed to the trauma debate.
• QUESTION: How does this ‘folding into sense’ square with Malabou’s destructive plasticity, where trauma refuses sense-making?
• XREF: Connects to the later debate where non-meaningful trauma (the new wounded) fractures this Freudian hermeneutic scheme. — connects to: Traumatic neurosis is the ego’s flight from a psychic, not an external, threat — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 2396; Freud reduces external trauma to a trigger of preexisting internal conflict — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 1653; An event becomes a symptom only when external accident translates into lived experience — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 1815 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Traumatic neurosis is the ego’s flight from a psychic, not an external, threat #corroborates (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 2396