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OLIVEIRA, Thiago Araújo  y  FERRARI, Ilka Franco. The Pulsional Aspect of Religious Fanaticism. Gerais, Rev. Interinst. Psicol. [online]. 2020, vol.13, n.3, pp. 1-14. ISSN 1983-8220.  http://dx.doi.org/10.36298/gerais202013e15317.

This text, elaborated from bibliographical research, deals with religious fanaticism, approaching it from scholars of the subject and some assumptions of Freudian theory regarding religion, group phenomena and pulsional dynamism in the individual and in the collective. It aims to ponder and reflect on the intransigence, intolerance and violence that characterize the behavior of groups gathered and moved by their beliefs. It reaches the understanding that these attitudes are forms of expression of the death instinct that, present in religions as human constructions, also imprints on them the mark of ambivalence proper to the human.

Palabras clave : Fanaticism; Death instinct; Religion; Freud.

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