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In this essay I offer meditations on the war in Ukraine from a distance, while reflecting back on my own memories of the war in Yugoslavia. I explore the role of paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions in making sense of the atrocity that is war.
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This essay is based on an address to the Friends of the Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Society in April 2022. “The Mind at War” is published in the Romanian Journal of Psychoanalysis and is available on PEP or on my website, www.paolofonda.com.
Eduard Klain served as the Chief of Mental Health Service in the Croatian Army during the war in Yugoslavia.
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Fonda, P. War: A heavy mental burden for present and next generations. Psychoanal Cult Soc 28, 116–121 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-022-00359-0
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