THE ROMANIAN GULAG AND THE MEMORY OF A TRAUMATIZING PAST
THE ROMANIAN GULAG AND THE MEMORY OF A TRAUMATIZING PAST

Summary/Abstract: In this study I have achieved an overall analysis on the memory of the traumatic past of the Romanian Gulag, but I have offered a few succinct terminological explanations on these terms: historical trauma, structural trauma, the labor of remembrance and the labor of mourning. Based on the bibliographical apparatus of world class specialists like: Sigmund Freud, Dominick LaCapra or Paul Ricoeur, our investigation proposes to itself to survey to role and place of memory and remembrance in reconstructing some dramatic events like the Romanian Gulag. The memory of the survivors tells us a different type of story, directs us towards a different understanding of some historical traumas that cannot be forgotten, but can be assumed at an ethical level.

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