“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 traumatic event, although real, took place outside the parameters of “normal” reality, such as causality, sequence, place, and time. The trauma is thus an event that has no beginning, no ending, no before, no during and no after. This… — 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
