EDITORIAL

Abstract: The theme of this issue is anchored in the disorientation and the lack of possibility for a prognosis regarding the evolution of the current socio-political context. The psychoanalytic perspective on reality, as revealed in the articles published in this issue, seeks to explain on-going phenomena and thereby reduce the disorientation felt on a social level. Even though war no longer dominates the majority of news space, even though the information reaching us through all communication channels no longer predominantly concerns the reality of war, it cannot be eliminated from the current context. The influences of war are felt both on a global social level and individually. War cannot be thought of, from a psychoanalytic perspective, outside the realm of the death drive, hatred, conflict, or at least the opposition between life and death. In fact, war closely associates death with life, leading to an increase in the intensity of anxieties, the reactivation of past traumas, or the accumulation of new traumas.