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 multifaceted aspect of war, as Stefano Carpani interviews
authoritative figures from the fields of Jungian psychoanalysis, sociology, history, and religion.
Their insights shed light on the meaning of war, the concept of fatherland, the masculine nature
of war, and the potential for total conflict. In Part II of the book, Jungian therapists reflect on
their experiences, offering insights into the impact of war on the field of analysis, presenting a
comprehensive exploration of war from interdisciplinary perspectives. The contributions touch
upon themes like the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, healing through arts-based research, violence
practiced by the state in Argentina, sexual violence, and the effect of the Irish Republican Army
(IRA) on Irish society.
This book proposes that war can serve as a reset mechanism, and that our era can be termed
the one of hypocrisy. It will be of interest to academics, scholars, and students within the fields
of analytical psychology, psychosocial studies, psychoanalysis, and sociology.
Edited by:
Stefano Carpani,
Ludmilla Ostermann
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
ISBN: 9781032486437
ISBN 10: 1032486430
Pages: 286
Publication Date: 27 May 2025
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
Preface Introduction Part 1 1. Day 22nd of War 2. Day 27th of War 3. Day 33rd of War 4. Day 37th of War 5. Day 40th of War 6. Day 42nd of War 7. Day 52nd of War 8. Day 55th of War 9. Day 59th of War 10. Day 69th of War 11. Day 70th of War 12. Day 84th of War 13. Day 92nd of War Part 2 1. Analysis in the Shadow of Terror: Clinical Aspects 2. Donbas in the Battle for Cultural Identity, or Cultural Identity in the Battle for Donbas 3. Sicily’s Infinite War – a neo-Jungian point of view 4. The Preserved Moment Through Art: Looking At Jungian Art-Based Research And The Articulation Of Inherited War Traumas 5. Embodied Analysis: The Recovery Of Early Psychological Functions Interrupted By An Experience Of Early Trauma Due To State Terrorism 6. Dream with the Heart, and the Heart of Dream 7. The Sacrificial Murder of Palestine: Grinding Bones to Dust 8. The Northern Ireland Conflict: From I.R.A., to Sinn Fein, to Peace, Ireland's Cultural Complexes Transformed 9. When our shadow makes us blind and deaf to suffering 10. Insight into an analysis with a patient who became frozen in fear because of the war 11. Destructiveness, Complexity And Archetypal Epistemology: Critical Reflections 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 Outro by Stefano Carpani
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.
Reviews for War as Reset: Insights from Contemporary Analytical Psychology on the Age of Hypocrisy
‘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
