The History of a Wound: Women, War, and the Diary, 1854–2007
Journal: Lifewriting annual
Year: 2012

According to Hacking, trauma, which had always meant a physical or physiological wound, acquired a new meaning sometime between 1874 and 1886 in France when it came to designate a spiritual, psychic, or mental injury, what he calls a "wound to the soul."Trauma acquired this additional sense of wounding by being linked to memory, such that trauma's wound no longer injured only the body but the soul and, through it, memory itself.-Leigh Gilmore, The Limits of Autobiography "We are going to carve r