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Traumas are naturally occur... more Abstract Traumas are naturally occurring events that shatter an individual or collective actor’s sense of well being.Trauma according to the Enlightenment thinkers can be understood as a kind of rational response to abrupt change whether at individual or social level. Trauma also necessitates witness, speaking, to somehow make an impression on the world that records the outrage of the moment . Trauma studies not only help us to understand the impact of world historical events like the Holocaust or the Partition of India, but has also evolved to include a whole lot of personal,social and historical experiences.The ‘inherent latency’ of the Trauma produces a structure of belatedness, “since the traumatic event is not only experienced as it occurs , it is fully evident only in connection with another place and in another time.” The “another place” and ‘another time’ unfolds in a narrative in the form of Memoirs, Autobiographies, Bildungsroman and other documentary forms like Paintings. Painting is also a narrative which tells a story . Like other Trauma Narratives , it is not only a space in which the personal element of public pain can be shared with others but also creates healing forms of repetition. For victims of trauma like P.L Parasher , Painting is one of the means to speak the unspeakable. Usually for the victim of trauma , there is a dual compulsion: one that makes speaking necessary and another that makes it impossible . The Paintings of Parasher , the subject matter of which is the Partition of India, portray a similar tension between expression and silence. So for P.L Parasher , painting the trauma is one of the most effective coping strategies for dealing with trauma. Key Terms: Trauma Narrative, Inherent Latency, Transference, Temporality, Trauma Process
Utopian comes from the word ‘Utopia’ coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describi... more Utopian comes from the word ‘Utopia’ coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean. The meaning of the term is excellent or ideal, visionary and it would not be wrong to call Shakespeare a visionary. According to Marcuse “The Utopia in great art is never the simple negation of the reality principle but its transcending preservation {aufhebung} in which the past and present cast their shadow on fulfillment.” Kiernan Ryan opines that “Shakespeare’s plays dramatize the historical reality of their time in such three dimensional depth and solid, sensuous detail, the universalizing perspective from which they dramatize it is charged with a power and a capacity to convince, that it would not otherwise possess.” Shakespeare’s drama dislocates its vision from his time and projects it into the future beyond our time yet that would not take away the plays immersion in their moment in history. The timeless is the product of the temporal. The utopian is latent within the dystopian facts of history.
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Traumas are naturally occur... more Abstract Traumas are naturally occurring events that shatter an individual or collective actor’s sense of well being.Trauma according to the Enlightenment thinkers can be understood as a kind of rational response to abrupt change whether at individual or social level. Trauma also necessitates witness, speaking, to somehow make an impression on the world that records the outrage of the moment . Trauma studies not only help us to understand the impact of world historical events like the Holocaust or the Partition of India, but has also evolved to include a whole lot of personal,social and historical experiences.The ‘inherent latency’ of the Trauma produces a structure of belatedness, “since the traumatic event is not only experienced as it occurs , it is fully evident only in connection with another place and in another time.” The “another place” and ‘another time’ unfolds in a narrative in the form of Memoirs, Autobiographies, Bildungsroman and other documentary forms like Paintings. Painting is also a narrative which tells a story . Like other Trauma Narratives , it is not only a space in which the personal element of public pain can be shared with others but also creates healing forms of repetition. For victims of trauma like P.L Parasher , Painting is one of the means to speak the unspeakable. Usually for the victim of trauma , there is a dual compulsion: one that makes speaking necessary and another that makes it impossible . The Paintings of Parasher , the subject matter of which is the Partition of India, portray a similar tension between expression and silence. So for P.L Parasher , painting the trauma is one of the most effective coping strategies for dealing with trauma. Key Terms: Trauma Narrative, Inherent Latency, Transference, Temporality, Trauma Process
Utopian comes from the word ‘Utopia’ coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describi... more Utopian comes from the word ‘Utopia’ coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean. The meaning of the term is excellent or ideal, visionary and it would not be wrong to call Shakespeare a visionary. According to Marcuse “The Utopia in great art is never the simple negation of the reality principle but its transcending preservation {aufhebung} in which the past and present cast their shadow on fulfillment.” Kiernan Ryan opines that “Shakespeare’s plays dramatize the historical reality of their time in such three dimensional depth and solid, sensuous detail, the universalizing perspective from which they dramatize it is charged with a power and a capacity to convince, that it would not otherwise possess.” Shakespeare’s drama dislocates its vision from his time and projects it into the future beyond our time yet that would not take away the plays immersion in their moment in history. The timeless is the product of the temporal. The utopian is latent within the dystopian facts of history.
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Traumas are naturally occurring events that shatter an individual or collective actor’s sense of well being.Trauma according to the Enlightenment thinkers can be understood as a kind of rational response to abrupt change whether at individual or social level. Trauma also necessitates witness, speaking, to somehow make an impression on the world that records the outrage of the moment . Trauma studies not only help us to understand the impact of world historical events like the Holocaust or the Partition of India, but has also evolved to include a whole lot of personal,social and historical experiences.The ‘inherent latency’ of the Trauma produces a structure of belatedness, “since the traumatic event is not only experienced as it occurs , it is fully evident only in connection with another place and in another time.” The “another place” and ‘another time’ unfolds in a narrative in the form of Memoirs, Autobiographies, Bildungsroman and other documentary forms like Paintings. Painting is also a narrative which tells a story . Like other Trauma Narratives , it is not only a space in which the personal element of public pain can be shared with others but also creates healing forms of repetition. For victims of trauma like P.L Parasher , Painting is one of the means to speak the unspeakable. Usually for the victim of trauma , there is a dual compulsion: one that makes speaking necessary and another that makes it impossible . The Paintings of Parasher , the subject matter of which is the Partition of India, portray a similar tension between expression and silence. So for P.L Parasher , painting the trauma is one of the most effective coping strategies for dealing with trauma.
Key Terms: Trauma Narrative, Inherent Latency, Transference, Temporality, Trauma Process
Traumas are naturally occurring events that shatter an individual or collective actor’s sense of well being.Trauma according to the Enlightenment thinkers can be understood as a kind of rational response to abrupt change whether at individual or social level. Trauma also necessitates witness, speaking, to somehow make an impression on the world that records the outrage of the moment . Trauma studies not only help us to understand the impact of world historical events like the Holocaust or the Partition of India, but has also evolved to include a whole lot of personal,social and historical experiences.The ‘inherent latency’ of the Trauma produces a structure of belatedness, “since the traumatic event is not only experienced as it occurs , it is fully evident only in connection with another place and in another time.” The “another place” and ‘another time’ unfolds in a narrative in the form of Memoirs, Autobiographies, Bildungsroman and other documentary forms like Paintings. Painting is also a narrative which tells a story . Like other Trauma Narratives , it is not only a space in which the personal element of public pain can be shared with others but also creates healing forms of repetition. For victims of trauma like P.L Parasher , Painting is one of the means to speak the unspeakable. Usually for the victim of trauma , there is a dual compulsion: one that makes speaking necessary and another that makes it impossible . The Paintings of Parasher , the subject matter of which is the Partition of India, portray a similar tension between expression and silence. So for P.L Parasher , painting the trauma is one of the most effective coping strategies for dealing with trauma.
Key Terms: Trauma Narrative, Inherent Latency, Transference, Temporality, Trauma Process