Flying Saucers of Trauma: Wanting to Represent the Unrepresentable

In the period after World War Two, almost all over the world, visionary rumors of flying saucers and extraterrestrials were rife. Referring to one of Jung’s last books, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies, the author explores the possible connections between the traumatic memory that precedes the sightings and the dissociation that is the result of them. The author cites historical events related to the use of the atomic bomb, on the one hand, and the story of sexual violence undergone by two children, on the other hand, as examples.