This article seeks to explore the quantum notion that to ‘see’ an entanglement is to break it in the context of an ‘experiment’ regarding the ongoing impact of traumatic political memory on the present. The analysis is a product of collaboration over the past four years between the two authors, one a scholar of international relations, the other a therapeutic practitioner with training in medical physics. Our focus is the conceptual claim that ‘seeing’ breaks an entanglement rather than the experiment itself. The first section explores a broad contrast between classical and quantum measurement, asking what this might mean at the macroscopic level. The second section categorizes Wendt’s claim about language as a form of expressive measurement and explores the relationship to discourse analysis. The third section explores the broad contours of our experiment and the role of a somewhat different form of non-linear expressive measurement. In the final section, we elaborate the relationship between redemptive measurement and breaking an entanglement, which involves a form of ‘seeing’ that witnesses to unacknowledged past trauma.

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“看到”就是打破纠缠：量子测量、创伤和安全

本文试图探索量子概念，即“看到”纠缠就是在关于创伤性政治记忆对当下的持续影响的“实验”背景下打破它。该分析是两位作者过去四年合作的产物，一位是国际关系学者，另一位是接受过医学物理学培训的治疗从业者。我们的重点是“看到”打破纠缠的概念性主张，而不是实验本身。第一部分探讨了经典测量和量子测量之间的广泛对比，并询问这在宏观层面可能意味着什么。第二部分将温特关于语言作为表达测量形式的主张进行分类，并探讨与话语分析的关系。第三部分探讨了我们实验的大致轮廓以及一种稍微不同形式的非线性表达测量的作用。在最后一部分，我们详细阐述了救赎性衡量与打破纠缠之间的关系，其中涉及一种“看到”的形式，它见证了未被承认的过去的创伤。