A Political Mind Special - Ukraine

A Political Mind Special - Ukraine

With Julian Evans, author & journalist, & Igor Romanov, Ukrainian Psychoanalyst

Chair: David Morgan

Tuesday 19th November 2024
8:15pm - 9:45pm GMT

These discussions will be delivered remotely via Zoom.
Recording available for 1 week

Shortly after our Remembrance weekend here it is important to reflect on Russia’s continuing war on Ukraine. Both speakers share a love of Ukraine. Julian Evans asks if negotiating for peace now will limit the losses or only ‘mortgage future Ukrainian lives?’. He questions why we fail to provide Ukraine with all that it needs to defeat Russia and suggests factors that lead us to hold back from engagement.

Igor Romanov raises similar and different questions. He describes his shock at the level of hatred that has been aroused in his country and, drawing on Brenman, Freud, Money-Kyrle, and Steiner, he explores the processes of dehumanisation. 

Julian Evans is the author of a forthcoming memoir of the city of Odesa and Ukraine, “Undefeatable: Odesa in Love and War”. He has also written about the war in Ukraine from the frontline and lived in Odesa during the bombing. He has an interest in psychoanalysis.

Igor Romanov Is a psychologist, philosopher, and psychoanalyst. Training and supervising analyst of Ukraine Psychoanalytic Society (IPA study-group). Associate Professor of J. B. Shadt department of theoretical and practical philosophy of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University philosophical faculty.

 The author of works on psychoanalytic theory, technique, history, philosophy of psychoanalysis and applied psychoanalytic research. Last publications: “Collective traumas, personal overcoming”, “Equation, moralization and denial”, “The wars inside and outside: Experience of war in a patient, a psychoanalyst, and a society in Ukraine”, “Contemporary propaganda and propagandistic states of mind” (in Swedish and Ukrainian), “The story of a Ukrainian psychoanalyst:My way and the common one” (in German), “Psychoanalysis in the time of war: continuity of mental life and Oedipal situation” “War, revenge and forgiveness: a psychoanalytic exploration”.

The editor of many translations of psychoanalytic works into Russian and Ukrainian (last ones are by R. Britton and H. Weiss).

Head of Ukrainian program of Kleinian seminars (from 2003 to now) and the program “Help for helpers” (from 2022 to 2023) (both supported by Melanie Klein Trust). From 2022 an organiser of Meetings of UPS Friends.    

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