ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in this book. The book examines breaches in the fabric of mental activity resulting from experiences of the extreme in outer reality. By using clinical material from analytic patients and quotations from Holocaust testimonies, it implicitly highlights the relationship between the differing trauma texts. The book also examines testimony and offers new methodological approaches to its study and research. It provides historical contextualization, description, and partial analysis of a video testimony study of Holocaust survivors hospitalized in psychiatric institutions in Israel. The book explores a challenging article by a media scholar describing the interviews with these psychiatric patients in terms of "counter-testimony". It talks about living life, being fully present to the blanks and scotomata, and about staying put in a place one does not want to be and can only remain in by holding at bay the pervasive impulse to flee.
