1. Julia Kristeva, Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia, trans. Leon S. Roudiez (New York and Oxford: Columbia University Press, 1989), 60. From the section titled “A Past That Does Not Pass By”, in the chapter titled “Life and Death of Speech”.
2. Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, trans. Richard Howard (London: Vintage, 2002), 42–44. From sections 3 and 5, in the chapter (or ‘figure’, as Barthes refers to them) titled “cacher / to hide”.
3. Griselda Pollock, After-effects | After-images: Trauma and aesthetic transformation in the virtual feminist museum (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2013), 3–4. From the section titled “Absence”, in the chapter titled “Introduction: trauma and artworking”.
