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The interviewer was to think of herself or himself as--
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not a questioner or as an interviewer
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in the way that we would usually understand that role--
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but rather as a witness to that person's story,
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a witness in the sense of a judicial witness,
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someone who would be in a court to affirm
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that something had, indeed, happened.
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There was a sense that validation was needed,
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in the context of gathering this evidence.
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Witnessing was theorized in a much more complex way
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by Shoshana Felman
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and Dori Laub, a psychiatrist who is--