affective turn

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is the engulfment of the ego in memory without consciousness (or in incorporated, body memory, or cellular memory). The body, which experiences difficulty in remembering, becomes a memorial, a ghosted bodily matter.

Trauma is the engulfment of the ego in memory. But memory might be better understood not as unconscious memory so much as memory without consciousness and therefore, incorporated, body memory, or cellular memory. As a surfacing of a difficulty in remembering or in being certain about the truth of memory, the body becomes a memorial, a ghosted bodily matter.

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