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London, during World War II, when Germany was launching
V-1 rockets,
if you heard one coming and then it went silent, then
you knew you were in danger. When Germany was launching
V-2 rockets,
if you heard one coming, then you knew you were safe from it.
Winnicott wrote that the catastrophe we fear
shall befall us now as adults in fact already happened to us when we were infants, but we have
forgotten.[fn.35]
Our fear is partly a stand-in for not remembering.