Narcizam malih razlika i međukulturno komuniciranje
The Narcissism of Minor Differences and Intercultural Communication

Summary/Abstract: in this paper the author tries to explain intercultural communication among people who lived in yugoslavia twenty-five years ago. analyzing the conditi ons of the civil war, many of them still find unclear why the Balkan nations, who shared the language, civilization and common history, suddenly had a conflict. This author will try to explain the ethno-nationalist conflict by one of the great civilization contradictions which Freud calls „the narcissism of minor differences”. The last year’s Britain referendum on leaving the EU reminded a lot of people of the Slovenian and Croatian referendums, after which the two former yugoslav republics declared independence, whereu pon yugoslavia officially died. Simultaneously with the Scots announcing secession after leaving the EU, at the other end of Europe the Catalans are fighting for independence from Spain. Recent events in Catalonia confirm that the two most pressing European conflicts concern autonomy and sece ssion, thus contributing the Freud’s thesis on „the narcissism of minor diffe rences”, whose sequels are still to follow.

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