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The collective responds to the devastating effects of mass trauma by the imposition of silence and a failure to recognize overdetermination and the duty to remember. The restoration of the operation of après-coup requires a period of latency, the regressive work of passivity and an imperative of registration related to an ideal that is open to the infinite that is at the origin of wishes to avoid any form of registration. This tendency to infinite extension defines Eros as the life drive.