The Trauma of the Positive Society

Abstract

his essay analyzes the psychic implications of contemporaneity through "trauma" within the positive society, based on Byung-Chul Han and Colette Soler. It argues that the current imperative of positivity and happiness sterilizes human experience by expelling negativity and contemplation. By systematically rejecting pain, the subject is stripped of the necessary solidity to assimilate anguish, paradoxically becoming more vulnerable to the real. Thus, the excess of positivity and information saturation act as a traumatizing agent, leaving the individual helpless against an unattainable demand for continuous well-being. In conclusion, the positive society, in its attempt to annihilate discomfort, engenders its own form of trauma, making an authentic commitment to genuine subjective integration impossible.