Introduction: trauma and artworking

Part I Sounds of subjectivity

1. Gasping at violence: Daphne's open mouth and the trauma of gender

2. Seduction, mourning and invocation: the geometry of absence in works by Louise Bourgeois

3. Being and language: Anne Maria Maiolino's gestures of exile and connection

Part II Memorial Bodies

4. Traumatic encryption: the sculptural dissolutions of Alina Szapocznikow

5. Fictions of fact: memory in transit in Vera Frenkel's video installation works Transit Bar (1992) and Body Missing (1994)

Part III Passage through the object

6. Deadly objects and dangerous confessions: the tale of Sarah Kofman's father's pen

7. '... that, again!': pathos formula as transport station of trauma in the cinematic journey of Chantal Akerman

Conclusion