“Not knowing trauma or experiencing or remembering it in a dissociative way is not a passive shutdown of perception or of memory. Not knowing is rather an active, persistent, violent refusal; an erasure, a destruction of form and of representation.… — Dori Laub Copy Share Image
“The absence of an empathetic listener, or more radically, the absence of an addressable other, an other who can hear the anguish of one's… — Dori Laub Copy Share Image
“Not knowing trauma or experiencing or remembering it in a dissociative way is not a passive shutdown of perception or of memory. Not knowing… — Dori Laub Copy Share Image
“The traumatic event, although real, took place outside the parameters of “normal” reality, such as causality, sequence, place, and time. The trauma is thus… — Dori Laub Copy Share Image
