Essay on Totalitarianism and Language - Psychoanalytic Approaches

Abstract

The present work, carried out in the format of a psychoanalytic essay, seeks to establish similarities between the discourse articulated by the extreme right, especially regarding its totalitarian, instrumental and purifying aspects, and the construction of narratives based on the reduction of language to a two-dimensional condition, flat, perverted and reduced to its information function. Extreme discourse was investigated through its manifestations such as hatred, xenophobia, racism, machismo, exclusion and violence in its various nuances, demonstrating the impasses created to produce questions, rupture of certainties and the possibility of thought from the plurality of points of view. It was concluded that in a world organized by binary codes as a structure governed by computer combinations of 0 - 1, with no possibility for contradictions, metaphors, mistakes or openings, there is a denial of what we know as being of the unconscious order. A space supposedly without holes or debris. In this sense, we then perceive a particular rapprochement between this language, which operates as blocks of meaning, the discourses of the growing extreme right wave and a social perversity present in a context eager for performances and results.