LANGUAGE METAMORPHOSES AS REPRESENTATIONS OF SUBJECTIVITY. UKRAINE. DAIRY OF WAR
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32782/upj/2023-1-5Keywords:
psychoanalysis, war, language, speech, unconscious, trauma, analysand, containingAbstract
The war launched by Russia in Ukraine in February 2024 became one of the most significant humanitarian disasters and had a huge impact on the mental state of every Ukrainian. This article describes the dynamics of mental processes of Ukrainians during the ongoing war, from its first days to today. These materials include descriptions of language observations of people who "came" into the "office" wherever it was (it could be a bed or a kitchen or a shelter) for individual meetings, and descriptions of the dynamics of large, medium, and small reflection groups and personal analysis of the author. And also - the style and method of work used by psychoanalysts and psychotherapists during the ongoing war and the dynamics of the population demands. The article shows the evolution of the unfolding of the psychic, presented through language, from the moment of "fight", "run", "freeze" in the first month of the war, from a place where there is no speech, no reflection, there is only the ineffable totality of the Real, to the bodily manifestation of pain, and in the rest – to the actual discourse of language/speech, where subjectivity appears. In addition, the article examines the phenomenon of the majority of analyses Ukrainians changing their language from Russian to Ukrainian. Based on Oleksandr Potebny’s reasoning that a change of language is not a change of clothes, that is, it is not an external factor, and Jacques Lacan’s statement that the subject is born in language, the author puts forward the hypothesis of a "return to the language font", which, in her opinion, caused this phenomenon.
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