When we grow up, we learn many things, but for various reasons we cannot think about them. There may be things we have forgotten; or that we have intuition or sense, we sometimes have difficulty expressing what the British psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas called “the unthought known.” Memories of these experiences live on the border between our conscious and unconscious minds. It is the stress we feel in our bodies that is one of the primary ways of tracing and discovering much of the content of this known unthought. Scientifically, the unthought known is created - virtually from conception until birth and in our early years the brain stores stressful experiences without the benefit of language. Normally, everyone experiences this trauma in life. Many writers have shown this traumatic experience in their works. Jayne Anne Phillips is one of the well-known contemporary postmodern feminist writers in American literature. She is the author of several collections of literary works and whose works have been translated into twelve languages. For Bollas, without knowing it, everything has been instilled in memory, like the fetus in its mother's womb. In the novel “Quiet Dell,” Phillips showed this trauma through two characters. It was written on October 13, 2013. It was written based on the true incident that occurred in Quiet Dell in 1931, West Virginia. “Quiet” means calm; here, the place known for its calm turns into chaos. The characters Harry and Annabel are invaded by this unthought knowledge. Due to the Great Depression, Dutch immigrants to West Virginia began advertising for companionship on the marriage bureau site called "lonely hearts". By registering on this site...... middle of paper ...") p. 05. Grandmother said that I could find myself one day on stage as an actor or author of a play (p. 03). Throughout the novel, in both characters, this trauma is visible. In Annabel, it is the positive attitude of her parents towards life which has been stored. in his mind and in Harry, it comes from his ancestors. In each individual, it can be the ghost or the unthought that governs Without knowing it, sometimes we ignore it and sometimes we know it, but we are unspeakable. cited Primary: Phillips, Jayne Anne. Silent Dell. New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc. 2013. Secondary: Robertson, Sarah. New York: The Secret Land. The Shell and the Core, trans. Nicholas Rand (2nd ed., London: University of Chicago Press, 1994) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unthought _known