04:50 Apr 14, 2010
The idea is that the actual trauma does not lie in the initial event represented in the memory trace (which was Freud's first theory). In his later theory, the memory trace gives rise to trauma after the event: Nachträglichkeit, or deferred action. A childhood event is not traumatic in itself, it becomes traumatic later in life.
(Or, in a different scenario, the traumatic event is only traumatic because it relates to an even earlier situation, for instance infantile desires.)
Translating herinneringsspoor with repressed memories would be inaccurate, in my opinion.
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