Balkan. Somewhere between a tragedy and a myth, a place and a condition, the term is perhaps best understood as a metaphor. It has been used and abused in academia by proponents of opposing political
In the Balkans, says Bjelic (U. of Southern Maine, US), the pathology of ethnic hatred and war was conjured up by psychoanalytic language strategically deployed to normalize the contested geography of
This book depicts how Freud’s cocaine and Benjamin’s hashish illustrate two different critiques of modernity and two different messianic emancipations through the pleasures of intoxicating discourse.
Balkan. Somewhere between a tragedy and a myth, a place and a condition, the term isperhaps best understood as a metaphor. It has been used and abused in academia by proponents ofopposing political vi
