Recovery from Disorders of the Literary – Cultural Identity in the Western Balkans
Recovery from Disorders of the Literary – Cultural Identity in the Western Balkans

Summary/Abstract: Interethnic conflicts generated by the breakup of Yugoslavia have accelerated the appearance of identity disturbance, including the cultural identity, literary margin in identity affinity profiles and transformation of the peoples of the Balkans. There may exist the following three types of cultural and identity disorders which occur during the period of the post-Yugoslav culture: captivity disorders, transfer disorders and chaos disorders.A tense and sophisticated connection between these cultural patterns of ethnic type has reached its maximum in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bosnian culture in searching for its own profile is the most eloquent example for the captivity disorders. In this perspective, zero degree transfer disorder seems to be the pan-Serbian ethos, which is responsible for the transfer of the ontological project with Serbian origin and structure to the level of the others dimensions of the cultural space from the former Yugoslavia. Chaos disorders are zero degree disorders, because of their nature and effects; these chaos disorders are responsible for both the deterioration of the political/ administrative space of the former Yugoslavia since the beginning of the 1990s as well as, in particular, for the post-conflict dissolution of its cultural space.The identity disorders in the Western Balkans can have a special relevance not only for the region, but also for the identity drama of the Romanian ethos. Our opinion is that the solution to the current dichotomy of the Romanian ethos should become the major concern of strategic decision makers in Bucharest, regardless of the efforts and sacrifices needed to restore our ethos, taking into account the tragic and spectacular experience of the Western Balkans.

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