Wing Tek Lum’s 2012 poetry collection The Nanjing Massacre raises vital questions about trauma. How do we know when a traumatic event begins? What cognitive options are open to victims of trauma? What are the ethical implications of our theories of trauma? I thus situate this volume between Bessel van der Kolk’s and Jacques Lacan’s theories of trauma because these poems challenge their key assumptions. Lum turns to poetry to think through how trauma begins and ends, the degree to which healing the gap between body and mind is part of the “cure” or part of the disease, and how much cognitive stretching is possible in trauma’s wake.

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林永德《南京大屠杀》中的事件、创伤和伦理

Wing Tek Lum 2012 年的诗集《南京大屠杀》提出了关于创伤的重要问题。我们如何知道创伤事件何时开始？哪些认知选择对创伤受害者开放？我们的创伤理论的伦理意义是什么？因此，我将这本书置于贝塞尔·范德科尔克和雅克·拉康的创伤理论之间，因为这些诗歌挑战了他们的关键假设。Lum 转向诗歌来思考创伤是如何开始和结束的，治愈身心之间的差距在多大程度上是“治愈”的一部分或疾病的一部分，以及创伤后可能有多少认知伸展。