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It is an inevitable result of all tat we should seek in the world of fiction, in literature and in theatre compensation for what has been lost in life.

The flashback juxtaposes two moments in time; past and present are separate, but at the same time the past inserts itself into the present as a memory.

Like dreams, films work through trauma by restaging it. Horror films in particular, with their shock effects and near-death encounters, might be seen as attempts to thicken the stimulus shield.

Whatever in a person's experience is too poweful or horrible for his conscious mind to grasp and work through, filters fown to the unconscious levels of his psycho. There it lies like a mine, waiting to explode the entire psychic structure.

In my own nerves I recognize the nerves of the world. The nerves of the world are sick.