THE WAR OF SYMBOLS. SYMBOLIZATION AND IDENTITY IN THE CONTEXT OF RUSSIA’S WAR AGAINST UKRAINE: ANALYTICAL VIEW
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32782/upj/2023-3-5Keywords:
identity, collective trauma, self, authenticity, symbolization, deintegration, reintegrationAbstract
The article is based on the Line report on the World Congress of the International Association of Analytical Psychology in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 2022, also, the version of the article was printed in Cahiers Jungiens De Psychanalyse, Numero 156, Automne-Hiver, 41–52. The author, the Ukrainian Jungian analyst, presents us with his view on the psychological consequences of the war between Russia and Ukraine based on our own experience, on the analysis of analytical relations, as well as the extrapolation of this material to the collective level. It focuses on the experience of distorted perception of time, variability and polarization of attachment and, finally, on the effects of confusion in the «grey zone» of traumatic conditions. How are symbols «working» through us, how is there a symbolic space? How do we process raw, traumatic material that we transform the alarming reality of the surrounding world into our own story of the internal world? The author also explores complex and turbulent historical relations between Ukraine and Russia, returning to the imperial period. It points to the vastness of collective catastrophes with millions of victims that occurred in the 20th century, with the secondary policy of amnesia, which prevented the experience of collective injuries in a later period. Finally, he focuses on the development of the national consciousness of the Ukrainian people through the search for authentic symbols, as an opportunity to call into question the use and abuse of symbols at the collective level, consciously choosing a democratic ethical system and the constitution of feelings of national identity.
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