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Nearly everyone has experienced
some sort of traumatic disconnect in
their lives, whether it is a severance within the body/self or a break
from family or friends. Much hysteria is rooted in such traumatic
experience, one that cannot be integrated into a person’s understanding
of the world. Freud, in “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” states, “Often
times we tend to repeat a traumatic event over and over even until it
becomes pleasurable.” This repetition contradicts our instinct to seek
pleasure but, regardless, our mind has a tendency to repeat traumatic
events in order to deal with them, as a way of mastering them. This
repetition can take the form of dreams, storytelling, or even
hallucination; my images allude to the cryptic mental re-scrambling
through which our traumatic events resurface.
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