Reading a contemporary psychoanalytic book on trauma, after over 100 years since Freud wrote about it in his personal correspondence with Fliess, is an experience of re-viewing and re-thinking the author's theoretical background and of re-analysing his clinical cases. It is also an experience of coming in contact again, from so many perspectives, with what individual/collective traumas, traumatic events, and traumatisms mean to you, both as human beings and as analysts.

Jonathan Sklar, following his Ferenczian filiation and way of thinking, is proposing, as we can read in the Prologue to Landscapes of the Dark. History, Trauma, Psychoanalysis (Karnac Books, ), to bring together eight essays/chapters, showing that: “it is crucial not to restrict the concept or origin of trauma to the early relation of mother and child, one can view the infant feeding sit