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This paper highlights the importance of establishing an interdisciplinary dialogue when dealing with historical trauma. This can be fostered by complementarity, the bedrock of the transcultural, which enables a connection between psychoanalysis and anthropology, as well as between history and politics. This argument is supported by a study of the “rioters” of Fall 2005, who were identified as French adolescents of “foreign origin.” Confronted with a group disavowal of the colonial past, these adolescents, in revolt against the reality of their present lives, also echo their own and quite specific history of France.