![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reflexiones desde la vida dañada (Minima Moralia. Narratives thus move on from being the life of one individual to become part of the ethical and cultural heritage of a people. If forgetting leads to the rupture of tradition, the truth is not a discovery that destroys the secret but the revelation that does it justice and allows it to be passed on to future generations. In order to prevent it from becoming an unbearable sequence of events, we tell a story and try to find its meaning, not to condone or forget but to win “the privilege of judgement” (Arendt, 1990, p. On these ‘dark nights of the soul’, when one suffers periods of extreme abnegation, ‘the question of who I am does not lead to nullity but the difficult nature of the issue’ (Ricoeur, 1990, p. There is a powerful temptation to deny that it ever took place or it is experienced as something that happened to someone else. Ricoeur argues that ‘time becomes human time when it is articulated in narrative form’, demonstrating that narrative plots constitute a ‘privileged means with which to reconfigure our confused, shapeless and often muted temporal experience.’ In spite of this, an experience is not always enough to be the subject of a narrative, as its traumatic nature often prevents the subject from assimilating their personal history. When survivors of Nazi concentration camps said that what kept them going in life was the need to tell others about the horror, they were expressing a need for an ‘ethics of testimony’ the salvation of victims by keeping their memory alive. ![]()
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