Shahnaaz Suffla

Our inner worlds aremadein large part by the world around us. What is outside is constitutive of what is inside. This rather ordinary insight is of concern to psychoanalysts who take seriously what happens when the subject represses the traumatic traces of the outside world, traces that—if acknowledged—affect how the subject understands the world and their position in relation to it. The entwining and enmeshment of the outside and the inside is especially acute during atrocity.