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Text passage: The core issue is the divide between omnipotent phantasy and reality (Freud 1911b). In the concept of the uncanny, Freud (1919h) brings out the ambiguous character of this divide. The closer we approach it, the more confused becomes the relationship between the attraction of the surmounted familiarity of home/mother and the terror of resurgent omnipotent phantasy. The horror of the collapse of the ordinary, external world, is simultaneously the most tempting relapse into ultimate satisfaction. Harold Searles (1960) deals most extensively with the seduction of psychosis, to the point of identifying with non-human and even inanimate objects, whose durability promises a safe psychic haven for the ego in its very dissolution.

In the collapse of Yugoslavian stability into nationalist war, Slobodan Milošević exploited an anxiety of Serbs living as a minority population in Kosovo, when Albanians were demanding independence (Ignatieff 1998, pp. 42–5). He aimed to reabsorb Kosovo into a Serbian republic.