역사적 외상의 재현(불가능성): 홀로코스트 담론에 대한 비판적 읽기
The (Im)Possibility of Representing the Historical Trauma:A Critical Reading of Holocaust Discourses
- 발행
- 2005.07
- 소속·발행
- 가톨릭대학교
- 출처
- 국내 KCI
- UCI
- G704+INS000000413-ART001160347
- 원문등록
- 2005-07-26
- 원문
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개념
키워드
외상, 반복, 정면통과, 증언, 지그문트 프로이트, 실재, trauma, repetition, working through, testimony, Sigmund Freud, the Real
초록
The Holocaust has remained, in Western discourses, the event of limit defying representation and posing a serious challenge to the project of modern rationality. Various theoretical and ethical attempts to deal with it has led to the so-called "post" discourses, which share the task of reexamining and restructuring pre-existing concepts and frameworks of thought, despite their inner differences. This paper attempts to critically read recent approaches to the Holocaust in terms of psychoanalytic notion of trauma."Trauma" means the sudden shattering of the protective shields of one's psyche or, by extension, a culture's symbolic system. In order to master its impact, one or a culture cannot but return to the past trauma, though repeating it is, in itself, painful. One can meet, through trauma, history beyond the pleasure principle and representational order. In order to properly deal with the Holocaust as a specific historical event, I proposes to distinguish historical trauma from structural trauma. The two concepts are distinct from, and irreducible to, each other, though having much in common. The former designates the trauma happening to specific individuals and groups in a speci