Abstract

DUNKER, Christian Ingo Lenz. THE CARDINAL ACT BETWEEN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND DEMOCRACY: LACAN AND THE POLITCS. Estilos clin. [online]. 2018, vol.23, n.1, pp.15-32. ISSN 1415-7128.  https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v23i1p15-32.

This study aims to read a kind of regression of democracy that seems to have happened in the West based on a psychoanalytic critique of the economics of jouissance involved in this kind of democratic hiatus and that must cover three processes simultaneously. First: the aggressive tension produced by the assimilation of individuals to the democratic process depends on anthropology not only as discourse about the difference, but also as incarnate presence and actual experience of the foreign. Second: the formal process in which democracy is succeeded by tyranny, process that dates back to the philosophy of history in Plato. Third: the operation of regression of democracy in tyranny in the neoliberalism context depends on the reduction of individuals to ordinal numbers, followed by cardinal acts of addition of new individuals and after segregative acts, based on the surplus subtraction, multiplication and division of subjectivities and abject sexualities. If in the first two cases, the constitution of the subjects of democracy and its repetition rule and transformation over time are at stake, the third case is about evaluating its potential of universalization within the framework of what Lacan named the logic of the not-all.

Keywords : democracy; Lacan; politics.

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