A traumatic event is an event that is or may be a cause of trauma. The term may refer to one of the followiong:
- Trauma (medicine), an event associated with a physical trauma
- Psychological trauma, an event associated with a psychological trauma
Famous quotes containing the words traumatic and/or event:
“There’s a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They’ve already passed their test in life. They’re aristocrats.”
—Diane Arbus (1923–1971)
“A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dungheap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble unstemmed from his mouth—either epileptic or dead.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
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