honey and sting

first cross-posted account. I can access DW from work (so far), but LJ is blocked, so if you respond at LJ I won't see it until later.

anyone know how i can get the rest of my LJ icons to cross over?

also, i love New Mexico. this was the best move ever.

i has them. :)

I'm reading an article ("Concentration Camps -- beyond optimism and pessimism in therapy" by Szymon Chrzastowski, in Context, the magazine for family therapy and systemmic practice in the UK) (What? I have 2 poems in that issue) which points out that we've substituted the term "trauma" for "tragedy" -- with some interestingly different implications. Trauma is a medical term that presupposes the possibility of healing -- tragedy refers more to meaning and the human condition. While I like the inherant optimism in the idea of something that is subject to healing, I think the idea of trauma can also be problematic in that trauma is more about the response of the individual whereas tragedy affects any who witness it. So the tragedy becomes psychologized in the trauma, and instead of saying "horrible events are tragic" we say, "oh s/he was traumatized by that." It places the event in the witness, rather than examining and interrogating the situation that produced it. In other words, there is something lost when we entirely give up a pessimistic point of view.

Thoughts?