Cathy Caruth Trauma

Introduction The word trauma coined from the Greek word that means "wound", it is not the wound of the body that is simple and healable, but it is the wound of the mind the breach in the experience of the mind concerning self, time, and the world. There is a consensus that if trauma is considered as a wound, it is a "very peculiar kind of wound". The precise definition for this concept differs according to the discipline and context. Trauma is not an object that is only studied in the three traditional branches (social science, natural science, and humanities) but also in medicine and law .it has a paradoxical relationship to the other disciplines including (psychiatry, psychology, sociology, history, public health, and literature).

She taught at Yale university where she received her PhD. After that, She became a member of the department of comparative studies at Emory University (winship distinguished research professor of comparative literature and English). She helped to build the department of comparative literature in this University. In the recent time, she is Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters at Cornell University teaching in the departments of English and Comparative Literature.She focuses in her studies on the issues of romanticism, literary theory, contemporary discourses on the annihilation, and survival of language. Cathy Caruth has become identified as the leading pioneer of trauma theory After the publishing of her two famous works, the introductory collection of essays about trauma theory entitled Trauma : Exploitations in Memory (1995),and the full length study about trauma , Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, And History(1996) . In her introductory essay Trauma: Exploitations in Memory, she attempted to give an ultimate and accurate explanation of trauma and the impact of the traumatic pathology, which is difficult to be located or assimilated at the moment of the event, but belatedly. She writes" the impact of traumatic event lies precisely in its belatedness, in its refusal to be simply located, in its insistent appearance outside the boundaries of any single place or time"(Caruth

The father heard in his dreams the voice of his burned child asking him to watch the fire that has burned his corpse by whispering "father, don't you see I'm burning". This appeal by others who are asking to be seen or heard is to command us to be awakening (to be awakening to the