Discurso2024

Explores the potential evidentiary value of dreams in historical-political events of a traumatic nature, examining the implications of the unconscious on legal discourse. The author, Fabiana Rousseaux, draws on her decade-long experience overseeing state policy for accompanying victim-witnesses in trials of those responsible for crimes against humanity in Argentina. She analyzes three dreams that entered into or were provoked by the testimonial evidence process, revealing and elucidating the temporality of trauma and its fixation. The book proposes that dreaming and testifying are subjective acts with logical proximity, and that dreams, as bearers of unconscious truth and traumatic marks, can interpellate the subject as much as memories emerging in the context of judicial proceedings.