{"title":"Mass Trauma and Cultural Amnesia: A Case Study of a Society’s Untranslatable Excess","authors":"Deborah Liner","doi":"10.1080/15240657.2022.2037315","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay draws upon Laplanche’s intersubjective theory of the origins of the unconscious and extends his concept of the traumatic impact of enigmatic messages upon the infant to the social surround. The author considers the Polish horror film Demon as dramatizing the transmission of societal enigmas and the destructive impact of a country’s failure to remember or integrate past injustices and crimes. The possibility of societal mourning and recovery of memory is conceived of in terms of Laplanche’s formulations of inspiration and the translation of après coup evocations.","PeriodicalId":39339,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Gender and Sexuality","volume":"23 1","pages":"65 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Studies in Gender and Sexuality","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2022.2037315","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT This essay draws upon Laplanche’s intersubjective theory of the origins of the unconscious and extends his concept of the traumatic impact of enigmatic messages upon the infant to the social surround. The author considers the Polish horror film Demon as dramatizing the transmission of societal enigmas and the destructive impact of a country’s failure to remember or integrate past injustices and crimes. The possibility of societal mourning and recovery of memory is conceived of in terms of Laplanche’s formulations of inspiration and the translation of après coup evocations.
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Beginning in the final two decades of the 20th century, the study of gender and sexuality has been revived from a variety of directions: the traditions of feminist scholarship, postclassical and postmodern psychoanalytic theory, developmental research, and cultural studies have all contributed to renewed fascination with those powerfully formative aspects of subjectivity that fall within the rubric of "gender" and "sexuality." Clinicians, for their part, have returned to gender and sexuality with heightened sensitivity to the role of these constructs in the treatment situation, including the richly variegated ways in which assumptions about gender and sexuality enter into our understandings of "normality" and "pathology."
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