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In response to Veronica Csillag and George Bermudez’s discussions of our paper, “The Reality of Trauma; The Trauma of Reality,” we emphasize the importance of a social aspect - the “we-ness” - of the subject (the me). We offer more detail about issues that were raised by the reviewers: the role of leadership and the political leader in social processes; “the Atmosphere” which is central to our model of the social; and how psychoanalytic theories and techniques can be applied in process and psychodrama groups as the “stage” of society. Additionally, we share our preliminary experience with an ongoing clinical group that was created to study and process transgenerational trauma legacies, and in which we attend to the dreaming capacity of the collective field (the Atmosphere).