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MARKS OF TORTURE By Hugo Urresterazu

Adjusting or recovering? Hugo URRESTARAZU
"It would be impossible that those moments leave no deep marks in our minds. They may be remaining, hiding in our brains just like a roll of film. And one day in real life, if we manage to live, they will begin unrolling, unrolling to madness.” Julius Fucik June 9th, 1943, (Czech patriot, imprisoned and tortured in Ravensbrück, shot down in Berlin by the Gestapo September 8th, 1943.)
I. - INTRODUCTION
My contribution may not be for academic purposes: I speak as a (...)
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Ordinary trauma, by Alain Bihr

Ordinary trauma by Alain Bihr INTRODUCTION I suppose most of you are intrigued by the theme of my conference, which is literally paradoxical. I will then (...)
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Stranger on earth, by jean Servier

Do not conceal you commandments I AM A STRANGER ON EARTH... (Psalm 119:19)
DO NOT CONCEAL YOUR COMMANDMENTS
Jean Servier
I chose this verse as a title for many reasons: stranger outside of a socially constructed group; stranger in this world; stranger within one’s physical body. Words of this psalmist underline the ambiguousness of a term we will try to redefine. This task would be easier for an ethnologist who, for long periods, spent part of his life living with populations and observing them without (...)
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