It is intended to analyze the link between trauma and narration. We will focus on the historic arch that connects the category of "survivor syndrome", popular in the 1960s, to a recognition of the category of "Posttraumatic Stress Disorder" in 1980's. The theme is analyzed by reading contemporary authors linked to Foucault's genealogy, as Ruth Leys, Ian Hacking and Paulo Vaz. It is concluded that this new conception of trauma modifies the relationship between trauma and narrative, making the traumatic experience is highlighted in media, literary and cinematic narratives as evidence of atrocities external and independent of the subject. In other words, tend to emphasize human frailty.
trauma; survivor syndrome; narrative; subjectivity