(6.) Tougaw 2004 adopts both lines of critical approach to Delbo, stressing the
incommunicability of trauma as a "dream" while also focusing on the aesthetic techniques that turn that dream into an aesthetic relic.
The topic of
incommunicability, one of the Italian director's favourites, found a perfect interpreter in that young, enigmatic woman, who can express herself almost without speaking.
that there are zones of opacity and
incommunicability in the words that
Their loneliness,
incommunicability, and solipsism, which characterize the entire volume, are reflected in a prose that highlights the sense of disjuncture and oppression that so pervaded Francoist society.
Among his followers in the exhibition, nowhere is this better demonstrated than in Pensionante del Saraceni's painting of The Denial of Saint Peter, c.1615-20, in which the dark void that separates the two protagonists heightens
incommunicability. Opposing the servant girl's illuminated wide-open mouth and emphatic hand gestures, a frail looking Peter, in a moment of grave human error, appears to shrink back into the darkness.
On the operative level of communication the new media lead to a paradox, a double bind, or what has been called "
incommunicability" ("inkommunikabilitat", Fuchs 172).