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The ego does not have a topographical space where trauma can be lodged. The individual ego struggles and resists any traumatic breach by building up anti-traumatic defences such as denial, splitting, hollow and full silences. In collective traumas, the capacity for community and identity linking is necessary for the survival of the species in the service of transgenerational transmission and collective memory.