The trauma of the everyday | Joanna Kavenna, Ian Parker, Sarah Garfinkel, Mark Salter
Philosophy For Our Times
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Trauma and Trauma
I was very struck by the fact that you said, my quote, it's not all one off event. Now, losing three kids and the mum getting a knock on the door, sorry, your kids died, that's about as one off as it gets. But for most people, that isn't the way their lives unravel. For most people, their lives unravel through later things happening to them. So remembering that people were killed is something that comes later and then is activated and turned into something traumatic. And I just think that's something else that's working possibly in a very general sense. The whole society has kind of lost the possibility of being a sort of redemptive framework for
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