It is indeed the truth of the traumatic experience that forms the center of its psychopathology; it is not a pathology of falsehood or displacement of meaning, but of history itself” (p. 5)

Cathy Caruth
About This Quote

This is a brilliant quote by Adolf Grunbaum. The author of "The Anatomy of Tragedy" talks about how our thoughts about traumatic events are not always accurate. When we feel that something bad has happened to us, it does not always mean it was actually bad. Our perception of an event has little to do with what really happened.

There are also times when our thought patterns are not accurate even if it was real. ​

Source: Trauma: Explorations In Memory

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