Abstract

LEVY, Elizabeth Samuel; CECCARELLI, Paulo Roberto  and  DIAS, Helena Maria Melo. Violence and terror in social networks: considerations on culture, helplessness and narcisism. Estud. psicanal. [online]. 2017, n.48, pp. 43-52. ISSN 0100-3437.

This article reflects on violence, terror and terrorism in social networks. We live in a dimension in which reality and virtuality are confused, we sleep and wake up plugged in an atmosphere of immediate contact. The fascination with encounter at any minute puts us before the omnipotence of thought, as Freud (1905) already announced. It is certain that the virtual society reflects what the real society represents. When terror and terrorism plague the world, we see the same thing happen in social networks, the real and the virtual mirror. The story of the Self repeats the history of the species, and every living organism brings its own destruction to its bosom. Terrorism is characterized by the way it coerces, threatens or influences other people, more precisely by imposing the systematic use of terror. The effect of this is the emergence of a state of fear in the affected people and population. Often, a partial loss of reality test is observed. The encounter with the other reminds us of the difference between castration and aggressiveness, since there is no substitutive satisfaction that repairs our abandoned narcissism. Any social context - independent of the mode of production - can create situations that lead to a rupture of the social bond producing violence. Whether in the real or virtual world, we do not escape the psychic suffering that confronts us with castration and helplessness.

Keywords : Terror; Violence; Helplessness; Narcissism; Castration.

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