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Journal Article
Shattering Silence: Traumatic Memory and Reenactment in Rithy Panh's S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
2009
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[...]in this scene, \"his gestures, the memory of his body, came flooding back. Because someone trained him to do this. The legacy of Janet, who was one of Freud's teachers, was crowded out by psychoanalysis with its emphasis on the repression of unacceptable wishes.14 It would take until the 1970s for Janet's ideas to be revived, contributing to a better understanding of post-traumatic stress disorder in the wake of the Vietnam War.15 Janet's ideas are particularly helpful when considering how dissociation of traumatic memories may render them virtually inaccessible through language until they can be translated into the symbolic language necessary for linguistic retrieval and thus brought into consciousness. \"25 As cultural critic Andreas Huyssen notes, we in the West are experiencing anxiety over forgetting, thanks to globalization, mass media, and a hypertrophy of emerging-and rapidly obsolescing-technologies that have aroused wide-scale cultural fear of oblivion as the relationships between past, present, and future are being transformed.26 Yet our anxiety is nothing compared with that of Rithy Panh, whose country still suffers from an official silence imposed about the past, disconnected from memories that hold a nation hostage. Were it not for bombing runs over Cambodia during the Vietnam War, one can argue that political instability, civil war, and the scourge of the Pol Pot regime might never have come to this devastating conclusion.
