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Based on a clinical study of cultural productions (literature and cinema), this article seeks to show how the threats experienced in childhood mobilise traumatic echoes in adulthood, which essentially emerge in the mode of reliving. These echoes in the present open up a possible experience of recovery after the fact of these traumatic experiences and authorise a potential revival of the processes of symbolisation which are, according to various modalities and registers depending on the context, as if frozen. The psychic movements that drive the “traumatic echo of threats” are brought to the fore via a sensitive approach to creative works, enlightened by an understanding of the complexity of the dynamics of trauma and the aftermath offered by psychoanalysis.