西方自传中的创伤治疗

The Trauma Treatment in Western Autobiography

创伤经历者在叙述自己的创伤事件时,仿佛重新体验了当时的经历,倍感痛苦,但是写完以后,就像是快刀子割脓疮,达到净化的效果,这就是创伤的治疗。文学叙事是将创伤事件转化并愈合的有效途径之一,自传作者叙述自己的创伤经历,将创伤体验完全暴露在人们的面前,仔细回忆那些痛苦的根源,哀悼已经失去的记忆,如此之后,才有可能恢复并重建自我。

By narrating the traumatic experience,a narrator seems to have re-experienced the pain,which seems to dowble the suffering;however,the healing is achieved on the completion of the writing.This is like applying a lancet to let the pus out.It is how the trauma treatment operates.Literary narration is one of the effective ways to transform a traumatic event.In so doing,autobiographers describe their traumatic experiences,expose them completely to people’s observation,recall sources of the pains,and mourn the perished memories.It is only after this that it is possible to restore and reconstruct the self.