So I wrote both of my dissertations on trauma when I was at university. I've always been interested in the relationship between trauma and the liminal space, and the impact this exposure can have on people (PTSD, dissociation, etc). One of the articles I found was by Cathy Caruth. One of the quotes that has stuck out to me is that to "be traumatized is precisely to be possessed by an image or event. And thus the traumatic symptom cannot be interpreted, simply, as a distortion of reality, nor as the lending of unconscious meaning to a reality it wishes to ignore, nor as the repression of what once was wished". What do you think of this outlook? Do you agree or disagree with the definition that Caruth offers here and/or in the rest of the essay?
I'll attach it to this post in case anyone is interested in reading further.