Narración del Trauma: Apología de la reconfiguración del discurso histórico desde Dominick LaCapra

Abstract

The present document is a defense to LaCapra's proposal that we make the work of trauma an object of study of historiography. Although their work is focused on history, the interests of this document are the philosophical, as they seek the understanding of what is meant by history, their political and social rights and the way in this issue and involves everyone from them. In the framework of the study of trauma, we seek, then, a clarification about the most important notions of the philosophy of history, a saber, the ways in which human beings create and respond to historical events and the impact that this exercise can have It is not a thesis about history, because the underlying concerns are philosophical. The methodology for this document has been the documentary analysis. To this end, we have used the reading of Dominick LaCapra's works, especially Writting History, Writting Trauma, to trace a historical discourse that overcomes the shortcomings found in previous historiographical methods. These methods respond to two trends in the understanding of history: First, Documentary Research, positivist cut, which understands history as a science, which is necessary for a rigor that avoids the speculation to make the assertions of La truth, so that you can remember any act that involves history, to what is considered here as an objective observer.