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“For trauma… leads to a very different kind of fragmentation – one which is, in Freud’s own words, “devastating”, and causes identities to batten down.. towards dogma, the dangers of coercive and coercing forms of faith… it can be a consequence of historical alienation that a people, far from dispersing themselves, start digging for a history to legitimate the violence of the state.”