Troumatisme
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Against Understanding, Volume 2: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.242
<span id="page-36-0"></span>[WHAT'S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT](#page-7-0) LACAN'S APPROACH TO PSYCHOANALYSIS? > **Events**
Theoretical move: Through a detailed clinical case, Fink demonstrates that the traumatic dimension of a sexual event is not reducible to its legally or socially legible content (e.g. "molestation"), but is retroactively constituted through layered signification, displacement, and the structural failure of the protective Other — illustrating Lacan's formula of trauma as a hole/gap (*troumatisme*) in the subject's memory and history.
Lacan (1973–74) refers to trauma as a hole or gap—un trou—forging the pun troumatisme (class given February 19, 1974): it is something missing from the subject's memory and history.