As we engage our histories of implication, are we underestimating our grasp of the treacherousness of this terrain? Can the experience of being an implicated-victim carrying genocidal trauma live with being an implicated-perpetrator? Can we hold this much reactivity and agony, and—if not - what does that suggest for how we maneuver? Are we de-centering empathy in this realm, as if empathy will impede upon our fight for justice? This article considers the emotional experience of the unwinding of collective identities and the shattering that ensues. It zeros in on paralysis and extreme disorientation as we awaken to our culpability, threatening capacities to self-regulate. It joins others seeking fluency with the layer of the psyche that absorbs the genocidal and working to grasp the inherent potential in these ruptures. The author draws from psychosocial and reconciliation projects at the trifecta of Israel/Palestine, diaspora Jewry, and German-Jewish re-engagement.