Analysing in the shadow of terror: clinical aspects

The author, an Israeli psychoanalyst, describes the circumstances under which he practices his profession in a country plagued by violence and terror, and how these ills affect his patients and himself. Several examples of dreams show how difficult it is to distinguish between individual and collective contents, due to the state of psychic confusion reigning among people who witness massacres on an everyday basis. Other examples emphasize the loss of individuality, leading to psychic reabsorption by the primary identity of the group, when analyst and analysand belong to enemy camps.