Radical Temporalities of Trauma, Melancholia, and Disaster

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In psychoanalysis, the arrival of the unconscious is instantaneous, momentary, and always fragmentary. “Instant” is often associated with meaningful articulation, an “aha” moment but it is also implicated in the real of trauma, disaster, and death, which stun objective time, knocking it off its automaton nature and showing its underlying ontic organization. For Lacan, time in analytic terms is posed in three different temporally modulated moments: the instant of the glance, the time for comprehending, and the moment of concluding. A moment of “subjective assertion” is an assertion of truth, a comprehending that is a discontinuity and destabilizing of accepted knowledge which produces a “savoir-faire,” a knowledge that can have political, ideological as well as personal implications. It is triggered by a process of metonymical association that intervenes in discursive unity and cannot be subdued by the conscious willful rational subject or mechanisms of ideology. This chapter reads Lacan, Heidegger, and Blanchot to consider how a confrontation with the real of trauma and instantiations of savoir-faire can anxiously expose a previously unknown passivity and replace it with knowledge, passion, and even repose. Lars von Trier’s film, Melancholia , and W.G. Sebald’s fictional novel, Austerlitz , support these considerations.

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