Por uma política do impossível: contribuições da psicanálise para a invenção da vida coletiva

Abstract

The present work articulates the field of politics and that of psychoanalysis in order to theorize about Religious Fundamentalism, Totalitarianism and Democracy. Puts in dialogue the freudian and lacanian psychoanalysis with authors the History, Political Philosophy and Sociology, such as Karen Armstrong, Manuel Castells, Hannah Arendt, Tzvetan Todorov, Zygmunt Bauman, Claude Lefort, Michel Foucault, and Marcel Gauchet, as the main conduct an interdisciplinary dialogue and of unfolding questions that concern the forms of power and the ethical coordinates that configure contemporary politics. It investigates and unfolds issues pertaining to the intensification of individualism and the forms of segregation that have taken place with modernity. It uses as one of the main theoretical and methodological resources the lacanian theory of discourses, proposing a reading of Fundamentalism, Totalitarianism and Democracy through this theoretical framework. Finally, it seeks to bring the contributions of freudian and lacanian metapsychology, not only to the field of politics, but also to the field of psychoanalysis, taking the concept lacanian Real as a key concept and thematizing about a politics that challenges the impossible