A Political Mind Special - Ukraine

A Political Mind Special - Ukraine

With Author and Journalists

Julian Evans and 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’s important to reflect on Russia’s war on Ukraine.

 Are we honest about how much we actually support Ukraine? The West says we stand by Ukraine “for as long as it takes” but fails to provide everything Ukraine needs. Does this just prolong the war and ensure that more lives are lost?. Are we in thrall to outdated imperial mythmaking? Some believe appeasement would save lives or is it Putin's finger on the nuclear button that arouses defensiveness (but also perhaps the inherent self-destructiveness in us all)?.

We hope to explore these difficult issues that seem In the face of other conflicts to fade from the front page of our minds.

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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