Working-through Collective Wounds discusses how collectives mourn and create symbols. It
challenges ideas of the irrational and destructive crowd and examines how complicated scenes
of working-through traumas take place in the streets and squares of cities in times of
protest. Drawing on insights from the trauma theory of psychoanalyst Sándor Ferenczi and his
idea of the ¿confusion of tongues¿ the book engages the confusions between different registers
of the social that entrap people in the scene of trauma and bind them in alienation and
submission. Raluca Soreanu proposes a trauma theory and a theory of recognition that start from
a psychoanalytic understanding of fragmented psyches and trace the social life of psychic
fragments. The book builds on psychosocial vignettes from the Brazilian uprising of 2013. It
will be of great interest to psychoanalysts interested in collective phenomena psychosocial
studies scholars and social theorists working on theories of recognition and theories of
trauma.
