Symbolization of Trauma
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Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.74
A RESPONSE TO FOUCAULT'S CRITIQUE
Theoretical move: Fink argues that psychoanalysis and Foucauldian discourse analysis operate with fundamentally different conceptions of the psyche—one multileveled (Möbius-strip-like) and one a flat "surface network"—and that the clinical imperative to symbolize traumatic experience cannot be reduced to a mere continuation of confessional/scientific power, because there remain determinants of speech that fall outside normative discourse and resist symbolization.
the project of symbolizing all forms of traumatic experience seems quite unstoppable (whether or not it is undesirable). But there are at least two different ways in which traumatic experience can be symbolized