A Plea to My Colleagues the Psychoanalysis.

It is difficult to accept being disliked. It is more difficult to accept being disliked because you are wrongly accused of being wrong. Worse of all is to be right but just because you are disliked you are deemed to be wrong. I am not talking about myself, but about Putin!!

Putin is disliked and even hated for having been KJB. It is not unusual to assume that secret services-of all countries do bad things as part of their daily work, therefore a Russian KJB must have don bad things, and Putin is hated for that too. But when the situation in the Ukraine is related to one person and its history and background are summarized and explained by one person’s psychology, we should then question our judgement. Few days ago, I pointed out that psychologizing history is a temptation we should resist. The result of psychologizing the present crisis is obvious: instead of asking “who is Putin” we are now we are asking the most naïve answer to another question; “what is Putin?”. Do you see the difference in the answer to those two questions? One is inquisitive and the other affirmative.

What is happening now started in 1945, just after defeating Germany in the war. As Churchill said ‘we must drop an iron curtain between us and the communists to stop them from affecting our countries’. A NATO was born to face the allies of yesterday. Psychologizing social and political phenomena is a European Disease since the fall of the Roman empire. If it was not Catholic versus Protestant it will be Anglo Saxon versus Slaves or Germanics, etc. And now it is between NATO and NOT NATO.

My plea to my colleagues is to forget for a year or two the issue of the training analyst, join forces with other human science professional a stand against psychologizing the real, facts, and deal with what is true in our daily life. We are on the verge of madness, and we should never stop reminding ourselves that whatever our specialization we are human scientists.