Kıbrıs: Savaş ve Uyum (Cyprus: War and Adaptation)

 

Volkan, VD. Kıbrıs: Savaş ve Uyum (Cyprus: War and Adaptation). Istanbul:Everest Yayınları.

This is a report of how a community under social and political limitations became exaggeratedly preoccupied with the propagation and care of birds - in this case parakeets in a strikingly reflection of an ancient symbolism.  This unconscious dramatization of the simile “free as a bird” or  “happy as a bird on the wing” adds to our knowledge of group reaction to disastrous external events of the sort that limits freedom of motion and threatens both physical and psychologic well-being.

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