Trauma And Experience Analysis

From all of the reading, I learnt that Artie’s father changed a lot his personality during the wartime and become a sarcastic, suspicious person with a little racial discrimination. These changes might happen with the reason of the trauma and experience of the history when he was maltreated and discriminated during the tough period. In Cathy Caruth’s article “Trauma and experience”, she described that trauma as a syndrome of people who cannot accept their impossible histories and generate the symptom of refusing possess the memory. “If PTSD must be understood as a pathological symptom, then it is not so much a symptom of the unconscious, as it is a symptom of history. The traumatized, we might say, carry an impossible history within them, or they become themselves the symptom of a history that they cannot entirely possess.”(Caruth, 194) In this quote, the author mentioned that these memory clips might lead people
After he faced all the difficulties and survived, his obsession became further intensified than before. For example, he will take many times counting his pills, checking the bank statements and baggage. It could also be recognized as a sign of distrust to others. For more, his claim to his son and others become more severe, and tried his best to show that he has the advantages and tact to survive from the catastrophe. His saponaceous and suspicious habits would also be learnt during the suffering in Poland. As a result, he changed a lot by having that trauma through a painful way. On the other hand, in Art Spiegelman’s famous comic “Maus II”, he demonstrated that his father had a bad experience when the first time he moves to New York about black people. So the when the time Artie wanted to help the black people with a free ride, his father showed a series of prejudice and