Trauma overwhelms the protective shield before homeostasis can respond.
Evidence
Chapter 4, which defines trauma as something that pierces the “protective shield” (.Reizshutz), seems to formulate a positive response to these questions. The psychic apparatus does not have time to prepare for an effraction and finds itself overwhelmed by the violence of trauma— violence that the homeostatic function of the pleasure principle has neither the time nor the power to liquidate. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 4027
Categorization
- XREF: The piercing of the Reizschutz grounds Malabou’s later account of destructive plasticity as a break with psychic economy. — connects to: Extreme bodily shock can produce relief resembling closure rather than terror — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 482; Severe psychological trauma creates impenetrable mental barriers against pre-war memories — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 569; Trauma wounds are temporal ruptures born of the nullified past — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 4370 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Extreme bodily shock can produce relief resembling closure rather than terror
#qualifies(0.85) — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 482 - Repetition acts as the psyche’s default emergency homeostasis when pleasure alone cannot manage trauma
#expands(0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 4054 - Severe psychological trauma creates impenetrable mental barriers against pre-war memories
#expands(0.80) — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 569 - Trauma wounds are temporal ruptures born of the nullified past
#expands(0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 4370 - Severe trauma can sever a person’s felt continuity with their own life
#expands(0.80) — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 510 - Transition from homeostasis to self-generation involves rupture, not smooth continuity
#corroborates(0.75) — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 250