February 2022 – Present
Lights Ablaze from the Ukraine and Russia

Realpolitik and Imaginärepolitik: Mearsheimer’s Delusion and the Psychoanalysis of Conflicts
February 27, 2023
"The guilty feeling of a people can be no less decisive for understanding political acts than economics and Realpolitik."
The New War and the Crisis in Western Culture
January 23, 2023
"The Russian invasion of Ukraine, especially in its early days, was a trauma to the European conscience."
Réponse au commentaire Schauder
April 29, 2022
"Je ne crois pas que mon devoir soit celui de faire le censeur, ou le prédicateur, ou le moralisateur des choix de mes collègues."
Reply to Schauder’s Reply
April 29, 2022
"My job is not to be a censor, or a preacher, or a moralizer of my colleagues’ choices."
Teleography and Tendencies: Part 2 History and Anastasis
April 29, 2022
"In our modern experience history awaits us with judgments and ends; but these ends and judgments have already had us."
Droit de réponse de Claude Schauder à l’article – L’incontro con il gruppo di analisti russi. Risposta di S. Benvenuto, European Journal of Psychoanalysis
April 29, 2022
"Mais à partir d’arguments fondés sur l’éthique psychanalytique, laquelle n’exclu en aucun cas que le psychanalyste reste un citoyen et qu’il lui revient par ailleurs, non seulement le droit mais même le devoir de cesser son travail quand il ne peut conserver la « neutralité bienveillante."
Right of Reply by Claude Schauder to the Article “My meeting with Russian analysts. Riposte by S. Benvenuto”
April 29, 2022
"Opposing arguments should however be based on psychoanalytical ethics, which in no way exclude the fact that the psychoanalyst remains a citizen."
Riposte to Belokoskaia-Mikhaylova
April 22, 2022
"Exposing the abuses of power in one’s own country abroad is no less essential than exposing them inside it."
Сhronicle of the March Days
April 22, 2022
"We need to get together now and do what we need to do."
Ma rencontre avec le groupe des analystes Russes: Réponse à certains critiques
April 15, 2022
"La psychanalyse est née pour rectifier notre rapport au réel, non pas pour le refouler ou l’ignorer, et que pour moi me référer à cette actualité était un acte analytique."
My Meeting with a Group of Russian Analysts: Response to Some Criticism
April 15, 2022
"Psychoanalysis was born to rectify our relationship with reality, not to remove or ignore it, and that for me referring to those events was an analytical act."
Poursuivre nos collaborations et nos supervisions psychanalytiques avec les Russes? Oui, car nous sommes psychanalystes! (C. Schauder)
April 8, 2022
"Le psychanalyste ne peut s’interdire d’entendre que là se font également entendre des mots qui disent des souffrances, parfois anciennes et que réveillent la bruyante et brûlante actualité."
Continue Our Collaborations and Psychoanalytic Supervision with the Russians? Yes, because We Are Psychoanalysts!
April 8, 2022
"The psychoanalyst cannot refrain from hearing that there are also words that speak sufferings, sometimes old and that awaken noisy and burning news."
La psychanalyse dans la guerre. Un débat avec des collègues russes
April 4, 2022
"Le psychanalyste ne peut pas être impartial."
Метка Каина
March 30, 2022
"Очень бы хотелось, чтобы Кто-то остановил это ужасающее братоубийственное кровопролитие и восстановил Закон."
Lights from the Ukraine
March 28, 2022
"Language matters."
Teleography and Tendencies: Part 1 Ukraine
March 26, 2022
"If we should learn anything at all from here, it is that the era of the partition and possession of the world and people by competing powerful nations should come to an end."
Un cœur brisé entre Ukraine et Russie
March 13, 2022
"Mais nous, psychanalystes, savons très bien que les différences entre les peuples ne sont jamais de « vraies » différences, mais le produit de différences entre des signifiants."
An Open Letter from Russian Scientists against the War with Ukraine
February 27, 2022
"It is bitter for us to realize that our country, which made a decisive contribution to the victory over Nazism, has now become the instigator of a new war on the European continent."
A Broken Heart between Ukraine and Russia
February 25, 2022
"We should not be nostalgic for a lost time, but we should be prepared to admit that a transition has most definitely occurred: we have lost the Other, and we have assumed the position of the one who supposes knowledge."
Сердце, разделённое между Россией и Украиной. Наблюдения психоаналитика за российско-украинскими отношениями.
March 19, 2022
"Но мы, психоаналитики, очень хорошо знаем, что действительные различия между людьми никогда не являются “действительными” различиями, а являются продуктом различий между означающими. А означающие – часто являются политическими артефактами."
Psychoanalysis in Exile: Ramblings without a World
March 15, 2022
"We should not be nostalgic for a lost time, but we should be prepared to admit that a transition has most definitely occurred: we have lost the Other, and we have assumed the position of the one who supposes knowledge."
Cain’s Mark
March 16, 2022
"Here, in Kyiv, we hear explosions, the roar of cannonade, we fall asleep with wailing sirens, and throughout this horror psychoanalysis is a saving respite in the experience of reality."
The Return of History
March 11, 2022
"Ukraine cannot be treated as a bargaining chip between stronger contenders. It has every right to choose its own international location without imposition."
What Has Been Lost
March 9, 2022
"In Freud’s time and ours; life proves itself to be defined by its transience."
Correspondence with a Russian Psychoanalyst and Philosopher
March 3, 2022
"The paranoiac hatred, as we know, doesn’t simply address outside enemies. There is no border between outside and inside."
Psychoanalysis in the War: A Debate with Russian Colleagues
March 2, 2022
"Not even the psychoanalyst can be impartial."
Психоанализ в войне. Дискуссия с российскими коллегами.
March 19, 2022
"Даже психоаналитик не может быть беспристрастным."
Message from Alberto Angelini, Historian of Psychoanalysis in Russia
March 19, 2022
"From the few direct contacts I have had, I have come to the feeling that our Russian colleagues have, almost completely, neglected their glorious psychoanalytic past."