1st Edition

War as Reset Insights from Contemporary Analytical Psychology on the Age of Hypocrisy

Edited By Stefano Carpani, Ludmilla Ostermann Copyright 2025
304 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In an age continuously shaped and shocked by wars and societal crises, this book serves as an antidote to superficial media frenzy. Exploring the interplay between the insights from analytical psychology and global dynamics, it unravels the meanings behind our shared fears and invites readers to confront challenging truths shaping our present and future. Part I of this book explores the... Read more

Preface

Stefano Carpani

Introduction

Ludmilla Ostermann

Part 1

1. Day 22nd of War

Tine Papič

2. Day 27th of War

Murray Stein

3. Day 33rd of War

George Hogenson

4. Day 37th of War

Caterina Vezzoli

5. Day 40th of War

Giuseppe Bettoni

6. Day 42nd of War

Joe Cambray

7. Day 52nd of War

Dmytro Zaleskyi

8. Day 55th of War

Dmitry Kotenko

9. Day 59th of War

Iryna Semkiv

10. Day 69th of War 

Vickie Sims

11. Day 70th of War

Verena Kast

12. Day 84th of War

Luigi Zoja

13. Day 92nd of War

Elana Lakh

Part 2

1. Analysis in the Shadow of Terror: Clinical Aspects

Henry Abramovitch

2. Donbas in the Battle for Cultural Identity, or Cultural Identity in the Battle for Donbas

Natalia Bolycheva

3. Sicily’s Infinite War – a neo-Jungian point of view

Chiara Capri

4. The Preserved Moment Through Art: Looking At Jungian Art-Based Research And The Articulation Of Inherited War Traumas

Roula-Maria Dib

5. Embodied Analysis: The Recovery Of Early  Psychological Functions Interrupted By An Experience Of Early Trauma Due To State Terrorism

Karin Fleischer

6. Dream with the Heart, and the Heart of Dream

Shen Heyong

7. The Sacrificial Murder of Palestine: Grinding Bones to Dust

Heba Zarigi

8. The Northern Ireland Conflict: From I.R.A., to Sinn Fein, to Peace

Ireland's Cultural Complexes Transformed

Kathleen Kirgin

9. When our shadow makes us blind and deaf to suffering

Elana Lakh

10. Insight into an analysis with a patient who became frozen in fear because of the war

Marianne Meister-Notter

11. Destructiveness, Complexity And Archetypal Epistemology: Critical Reflections

Renos K. Papadopoulos

12. ‘Tales of trauma, terror, and awe’
Counter- trauma, Counter- Adversity Activated Development, and mutual transformations in the clinical setting with survivors of collective violence

Elias Winterton

Outro by Stefano Carpani

 

Biography

Stefano Carpani, Ph.D., psychoanalyst and sociologist (member and lecturer of the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich, and post-graduate of the University of Cambridge). He curates Jungianeum: Initiatives for Contemporary Analytical Psychology and neo-Jungian Studies. His most recent book is Absolute Freedom (Routledge, 2024).

Ludmilla Osterman, M.A. is a Berlin-based journalist and editor. She currently works for different German media outlets on political, social and economic topics. Among other publications she recently contributed to a series of interviews initiated by the University of Bielefeld about the war in Ukraine.

‘War is a topic perennial and urgently current. The insightful contributions to this discussion here published capture many of war’s psychological complexities and will help the questioning reader to think more clearly about a topic both fascinating and horrifying.’

Murray Stein, PhD., author of Jung’s Map of the Soul

‘The important thing about this book is how real it is. Sure, it is full of Jungian, post-Jungian and spiritual reflections on war. And these include challenges to a great deal of orthodox psychosocial and psychoanalytic thinking. But I truly felt the smells, sounds, wounds and sheer mortality of war thrusting themselves at the reader. It is the kind of book that should have a "trigger warning" on it, that it might upset some readers. And a good thing too.’

Professor Andrew Samuels, author of A New Therapy for Politics?

War as Reset is a big slow cooked stew with many ingredients including reflection on wars in Ukraine/Russia, Israel/Palestine, Argentina, Italy (Sicily) Ireland, China and issues of gender, identity, trauma, displacement, terror, and the presence and/or absence of the gods in the world in general and in wars in particular. War as Reset is most ambitious in scope and depth. It has in mind a specific focus—the intriguing notion of reset—of war as an attempt to “restore a deteriorating order and set of values, striving to revive the world of yesterday. against the fear of the “world of tomorrow”.’

Thomas Singer, Co-Creator/Editor Mind of State