ABSTRACT
This small Reflective-Citizens journey through the Balkans begins with a vignette from a village-event held close to the River Drina near the Bosnian/Serbian border. Readers will get a taste of this new psycho-social methodology, which in a specific way combines few approaches from the psychoanalytic family aimed for citizens to reflect on their communities. Like on a couch-session from the social unconscious may emerge complex phenomena, as are “social-psychic-retreats”, their unraveling initiated with deeper individual and collective understanding, including relationships of local/regional with other European or global processes. Illustrations are offered from social-historical themes, Nobel-Prize-Winner novel “The Bridge on the River Drina” and Kusturica’s film “Underground”. Imaginaries related to the Ancient “Myth of Princess Europa” arriving from the initial vignette, help in the elaborations about the Balkans’ position as a screen onto which Europe projects its dreams - “Europe’s shadow” holding chaos and destructiveness, being in our times at the new historical crossroads.
