enigmatic signifier

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is the enigmatic message: Because we cannot understand or integrate this experience which passes from the past to the present and back again, being constantly reinterpreted.

John Laplanche called trauma 'the enigmatic message' (1998: 265), by which he meant that trauma is that message/signifier which we cannot understand or integrate and which passes from the past to the present and back again, being constantly reinterpreted (Clive Myer: Critical Cinema: Beyond the Theory of Practice)

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