It's very personal, or I don't really care: The Prague Spring between affect and discourse | Sibirskie Istoricheskie Issledovaniia – Siberian Historical Research. 2020. № 1. DOI: 10.17223/2312461X/27/10

It's very personal, or I don't really care: The Prague Spring between affect and discourse

According to many researchers, post-socialist identities rest on the experience of the communist past that is relived and continues to traumatise. Yet, field materials, collected in the Czech Republic in March and July of 2018 and in January of 2019, reveal the fragmented state of the discourse of trauma associated with the Prague Spring - an event now being reinterpreted in the informant's personal space. Pushed outside public debate, the traumatic experience of 1968 is moving to the sphere of pre-symbolic, getting 'stuck' between affect and discourse (trauma-in-between). In psychoanalytic terms, this process constitutes introjection, whereby traumatic experience, particularly the one associated with one's family, is buried deeply in one's mind and is accompanied by transfer in the form of apathy. Drawing on this analogy, the study presented in the article analyses how traumatic narratives are recon-textualised in the situation of the crisis of cultural memory.

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Пражская весна, 1968 г, культурная травма, аффект, дискурс-анализ, память, объектные отношения, Prague Spring, 1968, cultural trauma, affect, discourse analysis, memory, object relations

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Name	Organization	E-mail
Bochkov Dmitriy Andreevich	Lomonosov Moscow State University	bochkoff12@yandex.ru

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