Caruth's thoughts on trauma was that trauma was a wound upon the psyche that is not felt at first, but is only discovered when the trauma repeats itself. I was a little skeptical on this at first, but the more that I thought about her reasoning, the more it became apparent that her reasoning was correct. When I look at traumatic events, whether it comes from films, magazines, or real life, I realize that the person affected by the trauma does not realize that they have a problem at first, but only upon a recurrence of the trauma do they realize their situation.
I found Harries work to be very interesting. I was raised Presbyterian so I am familiar with the story of Sodom and Gamora. My assumptions up on till a year ago were that Lot's wife was punished for disobeying God and that was that, nothing more, then I thought about it being more about how mortals were not meant to look upon the divine. The readings from Forgetting Lot's Wife, Harries showed me a far vaster view of the simple story I had always known. I find myself looking at what had happened to her, and why she was punished, and also looking at Lot and his daughters and wondering why they were not punished. I can honestly say that I never thought that Lot's Wife might have been a little bit masochistic.
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