But the problem is, if you don’t face up to these uncomfortable facts, you’ll never be able to navigate a path forwards. Freudian psychoanalysts believe that if you deny or repress a traumatic experience, you risk acting out versions of the original trauma in ways that can be self-defeating. If we don’t confront the reality of what happened in British empire, we will never be able to work out who we are or who we want to be.
