A Voice Crying out from the Wound – with or without Words: On Trauma, Speech, and Silence

TY - JOUR

T1 - A Voice Crying out from the Wound – with or without Words: On Trauma, Speech, and Silence

AU - Welz, Claudia

PY - 2017/12

Y1 - 2017/12

N2 - Drawing on memory and trauma studies, psychotherapeutic research, and Holocaust testimonies (in particular those of Wiesel, Semprun, Kulka, and Appelfeld), this article explores the role of speech and silence in the process of working through severe trauma. That which seems “incommunicable” will be considered in regard to the limits of linguistic representation and the problems of communication caused by the interlocutors’ avoidance of the past. How can one ensure that recounting traumatic memories does not become an extra risk rather than a remedy?.

AB - Drawing on memory and trauma studies, psychotherapeutic research, and Holocaust testimonies (in particular those of Wiesel, Semprun, Kulka, and Appelfeld), this article explores the role of speech and silence in the process of working through severe trauma. That which seems “incommunicable” will be considered in regard to the limits of linguistic representation and the problems of communication caused by the interlocutors’ avoidance of the past. How can one ensure that recounting traumatic memories does not become an extra risk rather than a remedy?.

U2 - 10.1111/dial.12361

DO - 10.1111/dial.12361

M3 - Journal article

VL - 56

SP - 412

EP - 427

JO - Dialog: A Journal of Theology

JF - Dialog: A Journal of Theology

IS - 4

ER -