Keywords
Cerebrality
Trauma
symbolic field
acknowledgment Plasticidad
Cerebralidad
Trauma
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Abstract
This text criticizes the general theory on trauma proposed by the philosopher Catherine Malabou in texts such as The new wounded: from neurosis to brain damage and Ontology of the accident: an essay on destructive plasticity. In our opinion, what Malabou qualifies as a general theory of trauma is rather a generic theory of trauma, its failure being rooted in the generalization of the paradigm of cerebrality to all forms of trauma. We will try to show that the symbolic silence of the post-traumatic subject in sociopolitical traumas does not rest solely on the material foundation offered by cerebrality, but rather depends on a collapse of the meaning structures that characterize sociopolitical traumas, a collapse of the meaning that must be thought within the frames of history, the unfolding of political antagonism and the intertwined paths of recognition.
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