Parsing the Unspeakable in the Context of Trauma

Abstract

The unspeakable is an ancient, highly serviceable rhetorical device classically associated with romantic love, the sacred, and the sublime. Formally, its identifying feature is the explicit admission of the inadequacy of language in a given case. The lover insists that words cannot describe the beauty of the loved one. The religious poet runs changes on the inability of language to do justice to the divine. The majestic mountain range cannot be adequately described in human speech. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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