Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper presents the author’s considerations of how Russia’s war against Ukraine impacted the ability to think and the capacity to empathize among psychoanalytically oriented practitioners. She first describes and discusses the observed patterns among external psychoanalytic responses to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Secondly, she reflects on these patterns through the prism of her own reactions to the 2014 Russian invasion of Eastern Ukraine and the Crimea annexation. Lastly, she offers her considerations about the limits and possibilities of psychoanalytic thinking, practice, and training in the context of wars. Overall, the author proposes associating the psychic responses to war with (a) the war mode of psychic functioning and related defenses against it, (b) psychoanalytically informed propaganda influence, and (c) peculiarities of psychoanalytic training and practice, which set a specific type of thinking.
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