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suggests two things.
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One is, it draws on a whole history of discourse about genocide,
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and particularly about the Holocaust,
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that could be encompassed under the banner of trauma theory.
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Now, some of you may have encountered trauma theory.
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It's a sort of mix of psychoanalysis and literary criticism
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that has been powerful in the past couple of decades.
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Its power is waning, I think,
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although there is a new interest in
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Sociology in trauma, now.
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In the former literary critical version of it,
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trauma theorists argued that to tell the story again,