Psychiatrists and psychoanalytic discourse played a significant role in generating the ethnic conflicts that ignited the Balkan war of the 1990s. Interpreted and politicized by Serb psychiatrist/politicians Drs. Jovan Rašković and Radovan Karadžić, the Balkan Oedipus became a totalizing social theory for post-socialist subjectivity. Rašković's (1990) book Luda Zemlja [A Mad Country] provided psychoanalytic justification for ethnic separation and advocated Serb ‘irrational delirium’ as a liberating political force. Radovan Karadžić became notorious as the architect of the Bosnian genocide. The discursive construction of Balkan identity made the region particularly vulnerable to the ethno-analysis promulgated by those two psychiatrists.