ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author focuses her thoughts on sources of inner psychic trauma, how the mind may dismantle its own capacities to think and to feel human. A while ago a small group of colleagues was reading a paper which focused on the traumatic alienation and dehumanizing experience that many suffered in Nazi-occupied countries during the 1930–1945 era. The crucial aspect of this traumatic dismantling seems to be the collapse of the capacity for this wider humanizing view, a capacity that has been thought about from several perspectives. The sturdiness is vital for the transformation of traumatic impact because it provides the capacity to see that traumatized/traumatizing state from afar, and thus to think about it rather than to remain immobilized by it.
