ABSTRACT
This chapter considers nationalism in terms of a malignant form of national identity based on the hate of people who do not belong to one’s own nationality. It explains the metamorphosis of the thinking of people overwhelmed by national fervour with the thinking of perverts. The sanctions imposed in 1992 had a most painful impact on the very layer of the population which was closest to the West by its upbringing and culture. In nationalist fervour psychoanalysts generally see an attack on members of other nations as inferior and more primitive or, if they are at a higher level of civilization, they are seen as being dehumanized by their own indifference. The social and political situation in former Yugoslavia was fertile ground for the emergence of nationalist movements. One of the characteristics of communism was to destroy any type of professionalism and to subjugate it to ideology.
