In this article, we draw on feminist trauma studies with the aim of deconstructing the theoretical and methodological binary between individual and collective trauma. Based on first-hand interviews with Bosnian survivors of rape, we attempt to ‘think against’ the private/public split that trauma studies work often unintentionally reifies. We draw upon recent methodological innovations that have been influenced by thinkers such as Derrida and Deleuze. Specifically, we work with what Jackson and Mazzei call rhizomatic and trace readings in the threshold. Through a rhizomatic and trace reading of narrative pieces extracted from the interviews, we engage with the following questions: 1) How do we theorise what Davoine and Gaudilliere call ‘the sociopolitical faultlines’ between collective/public accounts of trauma and those traditionally constructed as private/personal? 2) How do accounts of war rape, which narrate the eruption of the past into the present, elucidate the myriad links between the private and public in a number of ways; among others, the echoes or traces of the everyday ‘before’ in subjects’ stories of the monstrous ‘after’? And 3) What is the relationship between the ‘unspeakable’ in the traumatic memories of the survivors and the ‘speakable’ collective memories of traumatic humanmade events? How does the collective desire ‘not to know’ or ‘to forget’ impact on the individual survivor’s ability to reconstitute their post-trauma identity in a personal as well as a social context? The aim of the analysis is to show that the multifaceted nature of the traumatic reality demands a multifaceted approach that resists binary constructions relating to self/other, private/public, individual/collective.

在本文中，我们以女权主义创伤研究为基础，以解构个体和集体创伤之间的理论和方法上的二元性。基于对波黑强奸幸存者的第一手采访，我们试图“反对”创伤研究通常无意间导致的私人/公共分裂。我们借鉴了受德里达和德勒兹等思想家影响的最新方法论创新。具体来说，我们使用Jackson和Mazzei所说的阈值中的根茎和痕量读数进行工作。通过对采访中提取的叙事作品进行扎根和痕迹的阅读，我们可以解决以下问题：1）我们如何理论化达沃因和高迪利耶所说的在集体/公共创伤报告与传统上被构造为私人/个人的报告之间的“社会政治断层”？2）叙述强奸过去到现在的战争强奸案如何以多种方式阐明私人与公众之间的无数联系；其中，可怕的“之后”的主题故事中每天“之前”的回声或痕迹？3）幸存者的创伤性记忆中的“无法言说”与人为创伤性事件的“言语”集体记忆之间有什么关系？集体渴望“不知道”或“忘记”如何影响个体幸存者在个人以及社会背景下重建创伤后身份的能力？分析的目的是表明，创伤现实的多方面性质要求采取多方面的方法，以抵制与自我/他人，私人/公共，个人/集体有关的二元结构。