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The treatment of survivors and their descendants is approached through the paradigm of genocide. The emblematic theories of trauma are confronted with historical truth, psychic truth, reality testing and with “being an analyst” - an heir to Freudian genealogy and twentieth century history. The hypothesis of latency in the collective, revealed by the processual effects of its rupture, is linked to the psychic archives of the collective as they unfold in literature, particularly in the work of Isaac Bashevis Singer. Repression, exclusion and putting in abeyance are all combined in this latency. A representation of the individual and collective damage to the protective shield by the massive quantities of stimuli in WW2, with reference to Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Freud, 1920g), is offered, where the presence of another person, afterwards, turns out to be fundamental. The collective-individual dimension of subjects and of the socius in its continuous/discontinuous form is linked in a knot associating the singular being, the effects of collective traumas, randomness and chance.