Here, differentiation within each side becomes possible because of the emerging recognition of paradoxes within the ideological positions of each faction. For example, when Estonians fight for Soviets against Estonians who fight for Nazis, they are against each other, or opposed to each other. Yet because both sides are Estonians they are close to each other or proximal to each other. In this third way-station of the two sides negotiating and subsequently crossing mental borders, both sides together encounter the trauma and obsession of their historical grievances. Here, the place and function of dialogue as that which creates mental spaces, that which opens up new illusionistic spaces, present themselves.
Borderlines open up and become recognized as potential spaces between the two disputing factions.
This crossing of mental borders effects the transformation of the trauma and obsession of historical grievances. This third way-station is preeminently a place of playfulness and fantastic metaphorization of conflicting positions admixed with serious dialogue. This crossing of mental borders that transforms trauma and obsession of historical grievances operates in ways where the two sides that had hitherto been polarized now operate conjunctly. Here, one term proposes the other for its meaning. In making complementarities out of antinomies, absence or exclusion simultaneously becomes a presence.