I’ll never forget a question Dr. Srdja Trifkovic asked me many years ago: “What makes a Croat a bigger Croat?” He answered before he gave me the chance: “The more a Croat hates Serbs, the greater Croat he is.” Sometimes I wonder if Croats would have a nation if they didn’t have Serbs to hate. It was this hatred that was at the root of the genocide the Ustaše perpetrated against the Serbs in WWII. The more Serbs you killed, the greater hero you were among fellow Croats. And there were plenty of Serbs to kill. Out of a population in Croatia of almost 4.3 million people, 75% were Croat while 20% were Serb. That was a lot of Serbs to kill – about 1 in 5 people – and it would require special tools to kill them efficiently and effectively, not to mention the approbation and support of Nazi Germany. The Srbosjek was the Ustaša’s weapon of choice and would be used to kill innocent Serbian civilians in the most barbarous and inconceivable manner during the Croatian genocidal campaign between 1941 and 1945.

The meaning of life and health cannot move away from the meaning of the concepts of Good and Evil, and all this is connected with human deep psychology. In spite of everything, it was ethical utilitarianism that opened up all possible manipulations in the field of psychological and psychiatric science. The basic thing to understand here is the following: only the unconscious part of a person’s personality can be manipulated, consciousness, intelligence and an integrated personality are not subject to this.

The notion of the unconscious, as we know, was understood long before Sigmund Freud’s theory by major philosophers (and before them by ancient peoples), while the notions and phenomena of the Oedipal and Electra Complexes were described in Greek dramas. The notion of the unconscious in one way or another is already sensed and mentioned by: Descartes, B. Pascal, M. de Montaigne, Spinoza (B. de Spinosa), Leibniz (GW Leibniz), Malebranche (N. Malebranche), Rousseau (JJ Rousseau), Kant (I. Kant), Hume (D. Hume), Fichte (JG Fichte), Goethe (JW Goethe ), Hegel (F. Hegel), Men de Biran (M.de Biran), Schelling (FWJ Schelling), Schopenhauer (A. Schopenhauer), Dostoevsky (F.M. Dostoevsky), Charcot (JM Charcot), Marx (K .Marx), Bernheim (H .Bernheim), Jeanne (P. Janet), Hartmann (H. Hartmann), Nietzsche (F. Nietzsche), Bergson (H. Bergson), and later Jung (CG Yung)…