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Column from Sarajevo – Exploring the city of trauma

10-03-2023

Christian Life

Mirela Popaja-Hadžić, CNE.news

Column from Sarajevo – Exploring the city of trauma

Photo Twitter, Vlada Kantona Sarajevo

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A long time ago, I read a book by Sigmund Freud (Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis) called "Civilisation and its Discontents". The book is about the tension between civilisation and the individual.

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