Quotes on Dissociation

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from identity. Even odder: it was before Photography that men had the most to say about the vision of the double. Heautoscopy was compared with an hallucinosis; for centuries this was a great mythic theme.