Using Psychoanalysis to Understand #MeToo Memories

An interesting article about how current changes in social norms affect how we look back at traumatic situations:

“The cultural shift in what is deemed acceptable, and the recent increase in women holding their abusers accountable, does more than just help individuals realize that they were violated back then…something that is inscribed as a memorable but not necessarily traumatic event can become traumatic through the prism of time and later experience.”

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/10/11/psychoanalysis-and-metoo-memories/

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