5/29/2023 0 Comments Karima lazali colonial traumaWhen catastrophes and tragedies happen, it takes some time to turn the event into an advent, to transform the event and commit it to memory. Just like individual memory, collective memory cannot be created over a short time. The Hirak has created and consolidated a freedom of speech, but it is also likely that the Hirak was born out of the need for free speech. Would such freedom of speech have been possible without the Hirak? Hundreds of messages brought back memories of the “Black Decade”. The hashtag #Mansinach (we have not forgotten) invigorated the 2 March 2021, declared “a national day against forgetting terrorism victims" by the "Ajouad Algérie Mémoires" association. Malek Lakhal, a research fellow with the Arab Reform Initiative, has interviewed the psychoanalyst about the Hirak's links with memory and history, those of the war of independence as well as of the civil war that ravaged Algeria during the 1990s. The publication provides a psychoanalytic view of contemporary Algerian history a history founded on fratricidal struggle and memory blanks, according to Lazali. Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Ī few months before the Hirak began in February 2019, the Algerian psychoanalyst Karima Lazali published Colonial Trauma: A Study of the Psychic and Political Consequences of Colonial Oppression in Algeria.Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window).Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window).
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