The trauma of history: Flashbacks upon flashbacks

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Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 205-

  Turim, Máureen ^a  

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1. For further discussion of the role Freud's modification of the seduction theory plays in trauma studies, see Susannah Radstone, 'Screening trauma, Forrest Gump, film and memory', in Memory and Methodology (New York and Oxford: Berg, 2000), pp. 82-95 especially. My use of the phrase 'modification of the seduction theory' instead of 'abandonment' is meant to correct an impression that Freud in his later writings uniformly assumed seduction never happened or denied that it ever affected hysteric neuroses. Learning that in some cases the seduction was a fantasy, creating similar psychic traumas, led him to augment the role of unconscious desire to explain this disconcerting possibility. I would go further than he did to suggest that such fantasies might be nourished by certain seductive behaviours on the part of adults that feed children's own patterns of desire, jealousy and possessiveness. Even if inappropriate sexual acts are not perpetrated, the fact that desire and fantasy are complexly interactive, particularly in childhood, does much to suggest that a modification of seduction theory does not have to blame the victim or deny elements of the trauma Screening trauma, Forrest Gump, film and memory