Each of them, in different ways, explores themes of trauma and identity.
The Holocaust remains a looming, tragic subject, but that doesn't stop artist after artist from exploiting it while supposedly invoking themes of trauma and collective memory.
There's a familiar pattern to abortion narratives, regardless of what side of the debate people fall on, themes of trauma, guilt, regret and having to choose between lesser evils permeate these stories.
The context and unique betrayals surrounding each survivor's experience are their own, but the themes of trauma, and trust; healing and the many forms of activism were where we found plenty of common ground.
Listen, it's no dark comedy, but "Pretty Woman" ― with its themes of trauma, and the and class and power dynamics baked into relationships between men and women ― can feel slightly different than the rest of rom-com fare when you read between the lines.
Octavia E. Butler's Afrofuturist work tackles themes of trauma and segregation in similar ways, but as a sci-fi writer well aware of the ways her genre had ignored the nuances of race, class and gender before her, she stands out.
Over the last 20 years the experimental body artist has been dubbed a masochist and a sensationalist for his extreme practice – a kind of queer performance art that deals with themes of trauma, ritual and resistance through the mutilation of the body.
Her series of holographic plates, however, interrupts this new artistic exploration in order to revisit past themes of childhood trauma and psychosexual obsessions, while also building upon them with the medium's unique ability to incite horror and reveal the grotesque in the perfunctory.
Luke Kelly noted that this theme of consistent brain trauma may have attracted Dahl to the study of Freud.
For the final session, the theme was the cyclical interrelationship of trauma and the apocalypse, and Thurner, after screening the movie, tried to create a theoretical framework for discussion by drawing a series of diagrams, all arrows and blobs, on the blackboard.
