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Dominick lacapra has been writing about the relationship between history and literature for more than four decades. It argues for the relevance to history of a critical but nondismissive approach to the study of trauma, memory, and identity. The aim is also to illustrate how personal trauma can impact the construction and representation of social theory. In writig history, writing trauma, dominick lacapra provides a broadranging, critical inquiry into the problem of trauma, notably with respect to major historical events. Discuss about the trauma and culture counselling for medical care. In writing history, writing trauma, dominick lacapra provides a broadranging, critical inquiry into the problem of trauma, notably with respect to major historical events. See also yoder, trauma healing, for an accessible introduction to different responses to trauma. Lacapra has explored this subject in past readings of, for example, claude lanzmann. Intrauma and recovery in the twentyfirstcentury irish novel, costellosullivan. In this model, what lacapra terms acting out is referred to by yoder as reenactment, encompassing both acting out, where trauma energy hurts others, and acting in, where trauma energy hurts oneself, for example, with anxiety and depression. Its readings focus on some of the leading theorists of holocaust trauma working within the fields of history, literature, documentary, and video testimony. Theoretically ambitious and historically informed, writing history, writing trauma is an important contribution from one of todays foremost experts on trauma. Using the example of three significant social theory texts, horkheimer and adornos dialectic of enlightenment, freuds moses and monotheism and baumans modernity and the holocaust, this article illustrates the difference between personal, collective and cultural trauma.
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