1. Dear IAAP officers and colleagues of the international Jungian Community, we are grateful for your constant support and help in this disastrous situation of the war! You immediately responded to our pain with real actions, and we’ve been feeling your compassion and empathy during these 6 months of the war!

2. On the first day of the war I wrote a letter to Toshio Kawai and Misser Berg and to all the presidents of European societies. We know that truth becomes the first victim of the war. That is why it was so important to tell the truth: the war began!

3. The war in Ukraine is very close both geographically and psychologically. It is within the geographical boundaries of the psychoanalytical world and you can see and feel all the atrocities of the war: invasion of the sovereign territory, bombardment of the innocent citizens.The destruction of the civilian objects, like hospitals, maternity clinics, residential buildings, cultural monuments, has a deep emotional impact on the whole humanistic society. This war is a genocide. Atrocities of personal violence overwhelm: rape, torture, executions, all these things are done by people in the 21st century. It is horrible to watch how things described in the analytic theory on hatred, cruelty, and shadow now happen on a large scale literally.  

4. At the same time we clearly see the power of love in the way our colleagues and societies of different countries are trying to help Ukraine. We see this in the actions of millions of people who identify with the suffering of Ukrainians and try to do everything they can to help.

5. We received great practical and financial help. We’d like to express our gratitude for very timely and essential financial help from IAAP which organized the possibility of donation for Ukraine, Fund for the Advancement of Jungian Psychoanalysis FAJP, with the involvement of Jan Wiener; and for the financial support for Ukrainian colleagues thanks to the event «Solidarity event on 21 May” #WithUkrainianJungians with the support of GAP (London).

6. Eros is aiming at making connections, that’s why you, our colleagues, international community, and National Associations we are all trying to think about this war together, we are trying to understand it as deeply as possible.

 7. Bion said how incredibly difficult and yet very important it is to try to think under fire. Disaster pushes to action. But it is also important to have one’s analytic attitude, “the analytic third” where one can reflect on what is happening, trying to understand human nature deeper and better, including its darkest parts.

8. That’s why we all gathered here today for reflection and support so that we could cope better with the psychological consequences of the war.

9. Now Sergey Teklyuk will say more about what we have been doing on a practical level during the 6 months of the war.