Outliving oneself: Trauma, memory, and personal identity. Brison, S. J. In Feminists Rethink the Self, pages 12–39. Westview Press, Boulder, 2018.
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[first paragraph] Survivors of trauma frequently remark that they are not the same people they were before being traumatized. As a survivor of the Nazi death camps observed, "One can be alive after Sobibor without having survived Sobi- bor."1 Jonathan Shay, a therapist who works with Vietnam veterans, has often heard his patients say, "I died in Vietnam."2 Migael Scherer expresses a loss commonly experienced by rape survivors when she writes, "I will al- ways miss myself as I was" (1992, 179). What are we to make of these cryptic comments ?3 How can one miss oneself? How can one die in Vietnam or fail to survive a death camp and still live to tell one's story? How does a life- threatening event come to be experienced as self-annihilating? And what self is it who remembers having had this experience?
@incollection{Brison2018,
abstract = {[first paragraph] Survivors of trauma frequently remark that they are not the same people they were before being traumatized. As a survivor of the Nazi death camps observed, "One can be alive after Sobibor without having survived Sobi- bor."1 Jonathan Shay, a therapist who works with Vietnam veterans, has often heard his patients say, "I died in Vietnam."2 Migael Scherer expresses a loss commonly experienced by rape survivors when she writes, "I will al- ways miss myself as I was" (1992, 179). What are we to make of these cryptic comments ?3 How can one miss oneself? How can one die in Vietnam or fail to survive a death camp and still live to tell one's story? How does a life- threatening event come to be experienced as self-annihilating? And what self is it who remembers having had this experience?},
address = {Boulder},
author = {Brison, Susan J.},
booktitle = {Feminists Rethink the Self},
editor = {Meyers, D.},
file = {:Users/michaelk/Library/Application Support/Mendeley Desktop/Downloaded/Brison - 2018 - Outliving oneself Trauma, memory, and personal identity.pdf:pdf},
pages = {12--39},
publisher = {Westview Press},
title = {{Outliving oneself: Trauma, memory, and personal identity}},
year = {2018}
}

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