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Kim, Kyung Soon. “Trauma in Memory: Jane Eyre.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 39.1 (2013): 29-42. This study examines how Jane Eyre may be seen in relation to trauma, the way the novel represents psychological trauma, as a personalized reaction to so terrible an event that traumatized individual cannot understand such event. Jane Eyre is told through the lens of the trauma of the first-person narrator Jane. The novel spotlights the telling of her traumatic memories associated with detachment, dissociation, disconnection, and I posit that the novel may be considered in terms of sort of traumatic aftereffects such as Jane’s encounter with Bertha, her leaning towards conscience over passion, her return to Thornfield upon hearing Mr. Rochester’s voice calling her name. The mixture of Bertha’s madness as a resistance to patriarchy and Jane’s resistance to what she had to say—Jane’s not sympathizing with Bertha’s traumatic experience—marks a dialectic of trauma. Unlike Bertha who threatens the stability of Mr. Rochester, Jane is an exemplar of turning her gaze on Rochester according to male standards of normalcy and happiness. Therefore, she is not able to find a voice to describe her emotion and suffering. She resists the telling of her trauma. She describes Bertha’s crying but not how she felt to see it. For Jane, the『not telling』of the story of Bertha serves as a perpetuation of patriarchical tyranny and suggests a distorted memory of Jane. (Kyungpook National University)