Identitet i kriza identiteta u savremenom bosanskohercegovačkom društvu
THE IDENTITY AND CRISIS OF IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY BOSNIAN SOCIETY

Summary/Abstract: The author analyzes the phenomenon of identity, he deals with the perception and contemporary interpretations of identity, ways of constituting of identity as social conditionality-sociogenesis of identity. Emphasis is on the importance of the Bosnian identity expressed in the phrase Bosnian spirit as well as the basic features of Bosnian identity. A key part of the paper deals with the generators of identity crisis or the crisis of identity in contemporary Bosnian society. Generators are analyzed through the prism of the mythological fogging and historiographical tension in the presenting of Bosnian identity and the "truth about Bosnia", then, through the prism of misunderstanding and prejudice in interpretation of Bosnian society and state, with special emphasis on programs of evil out of Bosnia, as well as through the analysis of ideology of hegemony and insatiable appetite towards Bosnia and the total set of its multi-layered, sedimented cultural, territorial, political, economic and other comprehensiveness. "Feudalistic" matrix of consciousness, matrix of thinking that prefer exclusivity and the necessity of ideology "nation-state", "alibi" of eternal transition and as thesis of fascistic matrix on "inevitable clash of civilizations" are the integral part of the author's consideration of the causes of the crisis.

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