traumacore
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A repressed memory of an event that when triggered becomes the primary reason for feeling traumatized.
Countable
noun
A 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.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "The traumacore functions, therefore, as an always already excluded, crossed out origin, such as the event of my own birth."
- "While the infinitely "small" time of the clinamen designates for Lacan the time of the "traumacore," it designates for Lucretius the birth of complexity."