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Organizational identification has received much scholarly attention, while disidentification remains understudied. Existing studies on disidentification examined people who never identified with an organization in the first place or rely on (cross-sectional) survey data. This means that there is little research on the lived experience of the disidentification process. Based on an analysis of ten fictional war novels by veterans who disidentified, this study offers insights into the antecedents, manifestations, and effects of their disidentification. Organizational members disidentify from their organization after feeling betrayed by it, because their expectations have been violated. They disidentify through dissociating from organizational leadership, practices, bureaucracy, mission, and values. As a result, they suffer from psychological distress, identity loss, and loneliness. The article contributes to the literature by offering a qualitative, processual account of the deeply personal experiences around disidentification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the relationship of Stratos myrivilis, -a Greek writer, who was born on Lesbos in 1890 and died in Athens in 1967- with Macedonia, which he knew as a soldier during the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913, and then during the First World War from 1917-1919. It is based on myrivilis’s novel Life in the Tomb, which was published in 1923-1924 and reprinted several times. The article underscores the narrator’s distress as expressed in the chapter “The Ghost Town”, when he participated, in 1919,in the clash between the Greeks and the French, in the face of the complexity of the situation in Macedonia when the borders are constantly in flux, where one war follows another, and where the alliances are made and unmade at the population’s expense. On the one hand it shows how Myrivilis, in the chapters “In the House of Kindnes” and “Zavali Maïko—Poor Mother” comments on the feelings of the members of the family where, wounded, he spends his convalescence, how he analyses the cultural identity of these people who regard themselves as neither Bulgarians, Serbs, nor Greeks but simply Macedonian Orthodox, and finally how the inhabitants fall into the trap of the Greco-Bulgarian rivalry between the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the independent Bulgarian Church, the Exarchate. On the other hand, it presents the stance of the writer, who seems to distance himself from the northern neighbours when they use the term “Macedonia” to describe a political entity rather than a geographical one. In conclusion, the article underlines the humanism of Myrivilis, who described the catastrophies of war and human vanity and advocated the need to surmount their differences and live together in peace.

The way the authors of the war novels of the 60s look at the phenomenon of war, as well as the content of these novels, indicates the existence of three viewpoints and tendencies in favor, opposition, and neutral, or the "third view" towards war, which has appeared in the fiction literature, especially the novels of this decade. Writers in favor of the war are mainly young and novice writers who have become more inclined towards writing after the revolution. The main purpose of these authors and their stories is to praise the stability and defense of the homeland, to stimulate and strengthen the spirit of bravery and to fulfill the ideological mission and defend the revolutionary and Islamic values ​​in relation to war. Among these works, we can mention the novel "Headless Palms" by Qasim-Ali Ferasat. Writers against the war are mainly veteran and experienced writers who started writing years before the revolution. This group of writers do not value the war and usually do not enter the war front and mostly focus on the war of the cities, migration and its negative consequences in the individual and social life of the people. Among these works, we can mention the novel "Winter of 1362" by Ismail Fasih. Neutral writers or "Third View" are a smaller group of writers of the 60s who have addressed the issue of war in some of their works and in fact far from denying or taking sides, they have only reported it. Among these works, we can mention the novel "Scorched Earth" by Ahmad Mahmoud. Among the characteristics of the war novels of the 60s, we can mention such things as the fact that the story is based on events, the influence of the characters from the Ashura culture, the lack of artistic attention and the events being just reportive, the lack of conflict and horror, the presence of repetitive patterns, and the presence of traces of disturbances caused by the Revolution.

The main aim of this work is to show psychological aspects of the novels whose themes picture war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (the last war, 1992-1995). The subconscious flows seen as places of memory and war trauma will be in the focus of this paper. Many characters in analysed novels are war victimes deeply traumatized by war. Images of war inhabit not only their thoughts, but also their subconscious world, especially their dreams. In that context, the space of dream opens new possibilities in perception of war trauma. The theoretical basis for this work is found in ideas of psychological realism that influenced poetics of modernism, and also in postfeministic studies. Those mentioned ideas will be observed in novels Iščezavanje plavih jahača by Nermina Kurspahić, Žene. Glasovi by Jasmina Musabegović, and William Shakespeare u Dar es Sallamu by Irfan Horozović. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]