Literary Lens Definition of Trauma Sigmund Freud defined trauma as a wound inflicted not upon the body but upon the mind Trauma is only healed when you have someone truly in your corner ID: 544902
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Trauma Theory Literary LensSlide2
Definition of TraumaSigmund Freud defined trauma as “a wound inflicted not upon the body but upon the mind”
Trauma is only healed when you “have someone truly in your corner” Slide3
Trauma Literature “The need to tell and retell the story of the traumatic experience, to make it ‘real’ both to the victim and to the community” AND
“to tell a reality or truth that is not otherwise available” Slide4
Examples of Human-Design Trauma War trauma
Sexual/domestic trauma
Child abuse Slide5
Victim vs Perpetrator
Perpetrator relies on silence and secrecy
If that does not work, the credibility of the victim is attackedSlide6
Example of victim blaming?Example: the Chris Brown/Rihanna situation
Boston Public Health Commission survey of teens in Boston:
46% blamed Rihanna
Where do kids learn this? Slide7
Assumptions of Trauma Theory
Trauma impels people to withdraw and to seek close relationships
simultaneously
Victims tend to have intense but unstable relationships with partners
When trauma caused by human sources (war, rape, incest, abuse, torture) readers are caught between the victim and the perpetrator, especially if text allows the perpetrator “story” of his or her own Slide8
What to do? Are these effects on the victim in the text?
No sense of safety
Sense of autonomy violated
Sense of invasion and loss of control
Total humiliation
Doubt of self and others
Sense of community and faith damagedSlide9
Big QuestionWhat
trauma has occurred
to characters in the text and/or its creator and how has that
trauma affected
them?Slide10
To This Day – Shane Koyczan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltun92DfnPYSlide11
JournalTell me how you understand Trauma Theory
Tell me what you get when you apply the
big question to our video