Trauma and history. Reflections from the back room

In this work, in which I reflect on the back room of the research work in history, starts from the consideration that methodology doesn't constitute an isolated and merely technical dimension of the historian's work, but rather is the aspect in charge of organically articulating the empirical work with the ontological foundations of history. Thus, the methodological is not reduced to the set of standardized and anticipated procedures for an investigation, but includes a work that refers first of all to the construction of operational categories that intervene even in what is called the definition of an object. In the pages that follow, I try to explore the scope of these postulates in the case of the approach of recent history and the so-called traumatic pasts.