TIME, MEMORY, TRAUMA: BETWEEN BEING AND NON-BEING

Abstract

There are such concepts and terms, adherence of the epoch to which works as diagnostics of this epoch, a sign of the epoch. For our time such concepts of course are the concepts of «memory» and «trauma». These two concepts are firmly connected in the minds of not only researchers of history, but also in the everyday consciousness of modern man, which makes it possible to speak of a и «boom» of memory, provoking close attention to the past, to narratives about the past, to ways of their folding, living, sedimentation. But memory and memory practices are closely related to oblivion, which in turn indicates the need to eliminate information that has a destructive effect on the human psyche and the structure of social consciousness. Oblivion could be called a «memory trauma», meaning by this those events that have a destructive meaning for both personal and social (including national) identity. So memory begins to be associated with the concept of trauma. And we already see how along with the typology of memory (collective, cultural, historical) there is a typology of trauma (collective trauma, cultural trauma, historical trauma). The last concept, the concept of trauma, has become so widespread, moving from the language of scientists to the language of newsmen, which makes us look more closely at the connection between memory and a traumatic event.