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Estudos de Psicanálise

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FULBER, Vivianne Guimarães. Rhetoric of hate, culture and drives. Estud. psicanal. [online]. 2019, n.51, pp. 139-147. ISSN 0100-3437.

This paper points out the intensity of the language of hatred currently expressed in societies as a whole, particularly in Brazilian society, and seek to understand this phenomenon by using the lens of culture, as a civilization process, and by using the views expressed in Freud’s writings, primarily those regarding the drives. Taking into account the hatred language that overruns the social relationships this paper focuses on sadistic and power relations which form the structure of Brazilian society, based on an inheritance of slave history and therefore highly racist and judgmental. This concept is referenced from Freud’s theory of a superego as a transgenerational mnemic trace and from the realization that aggression and cruelty are actually inherent human qualities, according the writings in Malaise in Civilization (1930). It explores the death drive, the sadism and masochism concepts to understand the aggression towards others. It is based on the assumption of the unconscious primordial hate, coded on the human being formation as the origin of man’s tendency to destruction, cruelty and evil. Finally, it explores the rhetoric of hatred as a probable reply of a society who has unlearned how to symbolize and defends itself with old regression, the straight-through from the destruction drive to action.

Keywords : Rhetoric of hatred; Culture; Sadism; Brazil social relationships.

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