For many young women, so I am told, the rupture of the hymen is a nasty bit of crude surgery, often painful and traumatic, but absolutely necessary for the survival of our species.
It's absolutely devastating and very, very traumatic.
"So, no traumatic hair-styling sessions?" "Absolutely not!
"These are good people who have given a whole career to serving the public who have undoubtedly been exposed from really, really traumatic incidents, this is something absolutely we need to take seriously," said Hanstock.
He added: "Losing a child is an extremely traumatic experience and it is absolutely crucial that families are treated sensitively and given the support and information they need.
"Anyone who claims that this is a reward has absolutely no idea about police work and how traumatic it is for an officer who has been in a shooting and for their family," Mr. Hunt said.
"It absolutely haunts me," he says of the incident back in 1995, a traumatic experience the family chose to keep private until the daughter, Sophie, wrote about it in her autobiography last year.
"I'm doing something that is absolutely amazing, that I would never ever have done, as a result of going through the most traumatic day of my life and nearly dying, and thank God I didn't die," she said.
At that interface, the Real is defined as what absolutely resists or defies symbolization; it is whatever cannot be integrated into the universe of signification, whatever is genuinely traumatic.
When I say it sounds traumatic, she says there were many aspects that were loving "because my mum has always been, and still is, absolutely brilliant, and was the significant person in our lives.
