Emotional Infrastructure of Reconcilliation

Analysis of several institutionalized reconcilliatory actions in relation between Central and Eastern European nations - German, Polish, Ukrainian, Jewish, Lithuanian, Czech and Russian - is made aiming at excavating the basic emotional components underlying the successful reconcilliation. This involves the discussion of emotions like guilt, hatred, forgiveness, penitence and love. The tolerance is usually assumed as minimal precondition for reconcilliation but the ideal reconcilliation is linked with the proactive approach, that involves the love of the neighbor. The failed attempts at reconcilliation provide the cues for the answer as what is the role and dynamics of the tolerance/love/hatred complex. This is then linked with the analysis of the rituals of reconcilliation where the emotions are publicly communicated and displayed in the public spectacles. The basic contradiction is pointed as the ritualized reconcilliation demands display of love emotion, the working infrastructureof tolerance is not emotional neither ritualized