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Does the fact that psychoanalysis today raises the question of violence signify that its location modifies our practice and thus demands that its limits or even its efficacy need to be specified? Violence leads us to revisit the major concepts of our field in order to discern how moral censorship and drive motions exchange their energy mutually, a term Freud reintroduced in the 1930s as Nazism was rising in Europe The break in history and death camps undergird present violences, which today’s psychoanalysts must take into account daily as they listen to the adults and children who come to be heard.