In this homage to Anne Dufourmantelle, French philosopher and psychoanalyst, the author traces uncanny resonances between her tragic death and case examples in her writing. He terms them the traumatic uncanny and addresses the role of the witness to the traumatic uncanny as being a witness to the resonance between another's life and death that puts one in the role of witnessing in place of the absent other. To witness trauma can have a redemptive value; to be the witness of the traumatic uncanny brings no obvious redemption. Instead, it brings the witness to question whether it would be better not to speak of it. It is argued that to proceed to speak of it is consistent with the spirit of psychoanalytic writing.