The spirit of the times sheds light on some facts and leaves others in the dark. It modulates the social guarantors, a system of representations sufficiently stable to think and exist in difference. The representation of reality, including that of collective traumas, is influenced by the context, the historical moment and the phantasmatic and affective unconscious. Working through, a process of continuous complexification, lightens the deadly weight of the static sublimation of the inexpressible memory of “never again”.