"Europe is not a mother who owes something to her long-neglected children; neither is she a princess one has to court. [...] she is not a silk dress, nor the magic word ‘democracy’. Most likely, Europe is what we – countries, peoples, individuals – make of it for ourselves."
Slavenka Drakulic

In an effort to call attention to the ubiquitous, inherent connections between the psyche and the social, it brings together the past and present, the archetypal and the everyday. In the end, it reconfirms that personal is always political, and psychic distress and public struggles belong together.

“History is the subject of a structure whose site is not homogeneous, empty time, but time filled by the presence of the now [Jetztzeit].”

Walter Benjamin “Illuminations”