HEREDITARY: What “Losing Your Head” Says About Trauma

“Losing your head” (as in the horrific beheadings in Ari Aster’s troubling masterpiece, Hereditary) is what can happen under the severe distress and hell of unimaginable trauma. You can’t think about it. That’s why you dissociate. But when one trauma after another hits you hard … your old traumas come flooding back, and your helplessness and terror drive you right out of your mind …