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War is a spectacular establishment of a general human situation whereby death assumes absolute value: the ideas for which we die have a right to truth because death becomes a demonstrative process.
This opens the psychological problem of death as a criterion of truth, based on the postulate that what we die for is true, which is, however, contradicted by another postulate, namely, that what is victorious is true, whereby victory is equated with what is true and right and the vanquished with what is false and wrong.
From Fornari, Franco
The Psychoanalysis of War (on Amazon).
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