ABSTRACT
Jean-Francois Chiantaretto, the author of a book of bearing witness and trauma, highlights the fact that in the 20th century, ever since the mass murders of the First World War, the Armenian genocide, and the Holocaust, the concept of bearing witness has taken on particular significance. Concomitantly, a revival of the debate on the treatment of people who have been traumatized has also taken place, and there is renewed interest in the Freudian model of trauma. In her work with witnesses, Waintrater refers to a "testimonial pact" or witnessing agreement. The testimony represents an attempt to re-create some type of link at the point where the break took place. In her work with witnesses, R. Waintrater refers to a "testimonial pact" or witnessing agreement. The object of the testimony transmitted is not what has been repressed, but rather the manifest narrative the unfolding of which is co-determined by the testimony-receiver.
