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32069 In Freud’s model of psychoanalysis the “latent content” (censored by the unconscious) of a dreambecomes the “manifest content” (the dream as it is remembered) via a process of dream-work. Thelatent content resists analysis. Freud is interested in the dream-work itself and not in the latentcontent per se. Because trauma can only be known in its belated form and because the essence of thedream, and trauma does not lie in the abyss beyond language but rather in the process itself,Freud does not try to reach the Real of trauma. This means that Freudian psychoanalysis is focusedon the construction of trauma in the Symbolic rather than its association with the Real. In fact, thetalking cure is less preoccupied with having access to the Real of trauma because the lost origin neverexisted.70 According to Foucault, the term archaeology “does not imply the search for a beginning; it does notrelate analysis to geological excavation. It designates the general theme of a description thatquestions the already-said at the level of its existence: of the enunciative function that operates withinit, of the discursive formation, and the general archive system to which it belongs” (131). In otherwords, Archaeology discards any notion of stable unity and coherence. This is also true of Lacan’stheory of the mirror stage which shows, while also studying the ruptures inherent in any discourse,how the subject is divided and constructed through the help of an Other and through language. Thisgap in subjectivity is where resistance and change are lodged and nurtured.