traumacore

Meanings

nountraumacore (plural not attested)

countableno pluralhuman sciencesA repressed memory of an event that when triggered becomes the primary reason for feeling traumatized.
The traumacore functions, therefore, as an always already excluded, crossed out origin, such as the event of my own birth.
2003, Wolfram Mauser, Joachim Pfeiffer, Trauer, page 91
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In an immobilization taken up in Kafka's story by the literal fixation of the victim to the bed, the traumacore fixates the victim of trauma to a specific temporal slot in its development (the traumatime and the traumasite), to which it returns, against its conscious will, freezing again and again into a traumatized tableau vivant.
1999, Pynchon Notes - Issues 42-43, page 246
According to Berressem, the ultimate 'traumacore' in Pynchon's poetics is the fall into language, subjectivity and culture, a fall that entails the realization of death, not face to face but rather in the face of the letter.
2001, American Studies in Scandinavia - Volumes 33-34, page 134
While the infinitely "small" time of the clinamen designates for Lacan the time of the "traumacore," it designates for Lucretius the birth of complexity.
2005, Niran Abbas, Mapping Michel Serres, page 63
no pluraluncountableaestheticA genre of Internet art where cutesy, childish visuals or motifs are juxtaposed with the anguish of trauma and abuse, creating a distorted, unsettling, and psychologically heavy atmosphere.