ENG354Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Plastic Letters, Totalitarianism, Counterpoint
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Eng354 feb 1 2018 experience, but actually experience it, since when the trauma was occurring they disassociating from it. The therapist listening to the victims describe their trauma began experiencing symptoms of ptsd. Describing trauma made the victims experience it for the first time not re- Sympathetic unsettlement the trauma is not your own, but you can sympathize. (cid:498)the witness you must bear(cid:499) the conceptual reality of torture. She can only justify writing a poem like this by negation (cid:498)this is not what it"s like,(cid:499) with it. Becoming part of the trauma through secondary sympathetic engagement. How can a privileged white woman write about trauma in this way? talks about the ways in which it would be impossible to write it. The exercise in impossibility creates the poem we read. Atwood intuited a lot of yet to be published trauma discourse. Women initially had to choose between beings artists or mothers.
