Abstract

LEITAO, Valton de Miranda. The decadence of love: the clinic of cruelty. J. psicanal. [online]. 2019, vol.52, n.96, pp. 23-32. ISSN 0103-5835.

The present work tries to articulate several manifestations of the cruelty, placing them under a common principle. Freud stated that his sociopolitical pessimism was the result of his research into the illusions of humanity. The sublimatory process that through literature, poetry and theater constitute the art that integrates the culture is attacked, while the perverse solution is established. The betrayal, whose existence Viktor Frankl shows in the Auschwitz concentration camp, presenting the capo as an executioner of his own people is here extended to all cultures as the emergence of unconscious tyranny. The figure of the enemy is presented in the social consciousness as the appearance of the egoic and narcissistic division between Us and Them. The political tactics of supporters of the system of belief and destruction is to create an abyss, in which the narcissism of difference stimulates the enemy's paranoia. Horror is trivialized so that tolerance and contradiction of democratic life are weakened.

Keywords : narcissism; difference; perversion; sublimation; torture.

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