Дмитрий Коренев

As the song goes, "the great public debate is on... the sacred debate..." About emotions, about feelings. Women often explain to me how important it is to learn to express emotions, to work on emotional intelligence and on emotionality in general. They probably mean something else, because emotionality is simple. Even a stormy infatuation can be produced in yourself and in those around you simply, quickly and by the book. And you can get out of an emotional attachment in two weeks on your own, and faster still with a specialist's

For all the emphasis on proving one's independence, every decision and every action still depends on how others rate them. Behaviour and decisions are driven by the wish to please and to charm as many people as possible. Self-enchantment. A focus on one's own beauty of soul and personality, on one's depth and “love” for people. A teacherly streak. The conviction that the world, other people and oneself must be changed “for the better”.

An underdeveloped, blurred sense of one's own presence in this world and of one's own boundaries (inner and outer). Difficulty defending one's territory; difficulty separating oneself, standing out, showing oneself against the background of other people and of the surroundings. Hypersensitivity, a heightened receptiveness to bodily sensations coming from the senses. The world consists of a stream of different bodily sensations. An obsessive need to single things out, to mark out clear gestalts (“good forms”), to complete them, to dot every i.

You know what people say about Freud: everything is run by the unconscious, and the unconscious is run by sex. Back then, in the Victorian, puritan, sex-free age, Freud had little information to go on. But if he were alive today, Freud would know everything. In this article I will lay out the statistics on what our unconscious dreams about in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. We will gossip about the "dirty" Europeans in Belgium and Austria. And most importantly: what do the ideal women in these countries look like?