The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma. Remembering and telling the truth about terrible events are prerequisites both for the restoration of the social order and for the healing of individual victims. Folk wisdom is filled with ghosts who refuse to rest in their graves until their stories are told. Equally as powerful as the desire to deny atrocities is the conviction that denial does not work. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.Ītrocities, however, refuse to be buried.
“The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness.
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