Traumacore

In an immobilization taken up in Kafka's story by the literal fixation of the victim to the bed, the traumacore fixates the victim of trauma to a specific temporal slot in its development (the traumatime and the traumasite), to which it returns, against its conscious will, freezing again and again into a traumatized tableau vivant.

According to Berressem, the ultimate 'traumacore' in Pynchon's poetics is the fall into language, subjectivity and culture, a fall that entails the realization of death, not face to face but rather in the face of the letter.

The traumacore functions, therefore, as an always already excluded, crossed out origin, such as the event of my own birth.

While the infinitely "small" time of the clinamen designates for Lacan the time of the "traumacore," it designates for Lucretius the birth of complexity.