Unimaginable trauma is unrememberable precisely because it is repression itself

Evidence

(And you think, well, it’s not the sort of thing that you’d forget, killing yourself and your children, is it? But of course, it’s not the sort of thing that you could possibly remember. It is an exemplary case of that which must be repressed, the traumatic Real.) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 291

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to ch11’s note that power induces cognitive dissonance making its own abuse unreal to victims. — connects to: Grady’s line embodies how the past speaks through the present as its own author — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 283; Power induces cognitive dissonance that makes its own abuse unreal to victims — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 210; Trauma is an unfathomable puncturing of meaning lived as background — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 730 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Trauma is an unfathomable puncturing of meaning lived as background #expands (0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 730
• At critical saturation, repression collapses the very concept of energy it produces #expands (0.72) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 486