War as Reset

In an age continuously shaped and shocked by wars and societal crises, this book serves as an antidote to superficial media frenzy. Exploring the interplay between the insights from analytical psychology and global dynamics, invites readers to confront challenging truths shaping our world.

‘War is a topic perennial and urgently current. The insightful contributions to this discussion here published capture many of war’s psychological complexities and will help the questioning reader to think more clearly about a topic both fascinating and horrifying.’

Murray Stein , PhD., author of Jung’s Map of the Soul

‘The important thing about this book is how real it is. Sure, it is full of Jungian, post-Jungian and spiritual reflections on war. And these include challenges to a great deal of orthodox psychosocial and psychoanalytic thinking. But I truly felt the smells, sounds, wounds and sheer mortality of war thrusting themselves at the reader. It is the kind of book that should have a "trigger warning" on it, that it might upset some readers. And a good thing too.’

Professor Andrew Samuels , author of A New Therapy for Politics?

‘ War as Reset is a big slow cooked stew with many ingredients including reflection on wars in Ukraine/Russia, Israel/Palestine, Argentina, Italy (Sicily) Ireland, China and issues of gender, identity, trauma, displacement, terror, and the presence and/or absence of the gods in the world in general and in wars in particular. War as Reset is most ambitious in scope and depth. It has in mind a specific focus—the intriguing notion of reset—of war as an attempt to “restore a deteriorating order and set of values, striving to revive the world of yesterday. against the fear of the “world of tomorrow”.’

Thomas Singer , Co-Creator/Editor Mind of State

Stefano Carpani, Ph.D., psychoanalyst and sociologist (member and lecturer of the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich, and post-graduate of the University of Cambridge). He curates Jungianeum: Initiatives for Contemporary Analytical Psychology and neo-Jungian Studies . His most recent book is Absolute Freedom (Routledge, 2024).

Ludmilla Osterman , M.A. is a Berlin-based journalist and editor. She currently works for different German media outlets on political, social and economic topics. Among other publications she recently contributed to a series of interviews initiated by the University of Bielefeld about the war in Ukraine.