Journeys Into the Unconscious Mind

Journeys Into the Unconscious Mind

The Power of National and Personal Identity

The Self and Master-Slave Relations in View of Russia's Ukrainian Disaster (Vol. 2; Issue 16)

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Alan Michael Karbelnig, PhD
May 03, 2022
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Justifying his bloody invasion of the sovereign nation of Ukraine in February, Vladimir Putin cited military threats from the West, the need to “de-Nazify” the neighboring country, and and the wish to merge their people with his. The question of the identity of the Ukrainian people stands out as most relevant from a psychoanalytic perspective. Putin’s o…

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