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N. 62 (2025)

Essere jugoslavo oggi: unità e separatezza nell’eredità emotiva della Jugoslavia attraverso le lenti junghiane

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3280/jun62-2025oa21708
Inviata
16 dicembre 2025
Pubblicato
18-02-2026

Abstract

La dissoluzione della Jugoslavia non fu soltanto un crollo geopolitico, ma anche un dramma psichico, una contesa tra forze archetipiche di unità e frammentazione. Questo saggio affronta l’eredità della Jugoslavia come contenitore simbolico delle proiezioni del Sé, in cui il sogno di una totalità coesisteva con ombre non integrate di risentimento, vergogna e trauma. Valendosi di concetti junghiani quali il Sé, l’Ombra, i complessi culturali e la funzione trascendente, il saggio interpreta la jugonostalgia e il disorientamento post-jugoslavo come campi emotivi in cui memoria, lutto e identità si intrecciano. Gli studi recenti sulla memoria e le prospettive post-junghiane approfondiscono l’analisi, collocando il caso jugoslavo nel più ampio dibattito su individuazione collettiva, identità policentrica e dialettica della negazione storica. Si suggerisce che la vita psichica postuma della Jugoslavia vada intesa non come il fallimento di un progetto nazionale, ma come un’individuazione incompiuta: un’istanza a sostenere la molteplicità senza regressione, trasformando la nostalgia in creatività simbolica. L’eredità jugoslava illumina così una sfida più generale della condizione umana – come immaginare la totalità senza cancellare la differenza e come vivere la pluralità senza collassare.

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