“Millay may be insane or cruel, but it’s not a psychological problem,” said Enrique Carpintero, a psychoanalyst and publishing director. Topia. in fonte vecchia modeOn network TV and radio Perfil (AM 1190), he explained that “neo-fascist temptations” do not arise from the minds of individuals, but from economic, social and political contexts. “This greedy capitalism based on finance capital creates a culture of fear and ownership of everyone,” he said. “The main health problem is not heart disease or tumor disease, but social inequality,” he said.
Enrique Carpintero is a Doctor of Psychology, psychoanalyst, essayist, and editor. He is the director of the magazine and publishing company he founded, Topía. He is a professor at the National University of Rosario and frequently participates in conferences, seminars and lectures on mental health and psychoanalysis. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including notable works such as The History of Psychoanalysis in Argentina (2 volumes) and his latest book, The Seduction of the Neofascists, which examines the rise of a neofascist model fueled by financial capital, hatred and fear as social policy.
We were reviewing his new book here Neo-fascist temptationwhere he makes it clear that “Millais’ seduction is not a psychological problem.” Editorial Perfil has a magazine editor news Who wrote a book about Millais with a strange title crazyan adjective that Millais herself chose as a positive feature of her personality. ballad for madmen at Teatro Colon, as the central theme of the beginning of the presidential cycle. There is always debate about the application of popular psychoanalysis to social psychoanalysis. You are the perfect expert to explain both to us and the neo-fascist seduction. What if the problem of neofascist seduction, and the president’s psychological problem, could be translated into these words?
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I speak of neo-fascist seduction because today this government cannot be characterized as neo-fascist. First we need to define a little What do we mean when we talk about neofascism?. This is to distinguish it from classical fascism, typical of the 1930s, such as Mussolini and Hitler, which is basically a nationalist government and includes the development of industrial capital, which is very different from this fascism today. This neo-fascismwill be held at Neoliberalism centered on the development of financial capital.
Neoliberalism also appeared in the era of Thatcher and Margaret Thatcher. Let us remember that Margaret Thatcher did not hesitate when she had to forcefully suppress a miners’ strike, and even when she had to cause three people to die on a hunger strike.. And here, latin americaneoliberalism is introduced under two dictatorships. Chile with Pinochet and here in Argentina with Martinez de Oz. and military government. In other words, this neoliberalism, depending on its policies, can create the need for authoritarian governments. And in fact, it’s nullifying certain laws and certain democratic social gains that we’ve been able to achieve.
Now, this neo-fascism, you heard it earlier, the phrase you used when talking about journalists, this level of hatred that it generates, this level of fear that it generates, is a way to support this policy. Now, it’s true, there’s a controversy, related to thinking Millais is crazy, maybe, we don’t really know, but he could probably be crazy and could be cruel. but It’s not a mental problem We will be inserted there, but economic, social and political issues. What I’m saying is that capitalism, even when it was born in the 19th century, is absolutely cruel capitalism. People had to work 12, 14, 16 hours. The boys were working.
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I mean, this isn’t a problem, but The question is, what good is this atrocity? And this cruelty serves the development of capital in the form of financial capital. This is a text written by Freud with Britt, who was the Austrian ambassador at the time. woodrow wilson. Wilson was the President of the United States. Freud wrote a biography of Wilson in which he used this phrase: Because one of the characteristics he described about Wilson was that he was paranoid and obsessive. But it didn’t matter. He said: On the contrary, Stories often require these characters so that specific questions can be developed in relation to their interests.. So I think in this sense, we’re often investing and doing what is basically known. psychologythat doesn’t make any sense. because That’s the same as saying Hitler was cruel. Obviously Hitler and Mussolini were cruel. But the problem was not Hitler’s brutality or Mussolini’s brutality. I think there are other factors to consider as well.
But on the other hand, this neo-fascism is based on what I call. “Generalized social trauma”it’s not from now, it’s from a long time ago. In other words, where there is a culture based on, in a sense, “every man for himself”; A culture based on what I call an excess of reality. What does “excess of reality” mean? What I’m talking about is excess reality. A reality that does not allow for symbolic processing within the mental apparatus. It is the reality that this excess is less real and less real. It doesn’t exist. It is this reality that creates the traumatic effects. What happens is a traumatic event when you are unable to mentally process certain issues that arise.
Therefore, the consequences of this excessive reality are, simply put, Psychological indigestion causing traumatic effects. Therefore, this excess of reality creates monsters. When I speak of “monsters,” I am not talking about the fantasies of a psychotic person or the delusions that appear in the characteristics of a psychotic patient, but rather the kind that creates monsters in reality. It affects concrete realities and also affects specific issues related to depression, psychosomatic disorders, and fundamentally topics that are rarely talked about. suicide problem. We have to think about this here and in the world. The United Nations says this. A person commits suicide every 90 seconds. And on the other hand, here in Argentina we have a big problem with suicide and suicide attempts among young people and adolescents.
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This has to do with the “every man for himself” culture.in this culture where there is no possibility of relying on bonds. And what happens when we are with this government is fear. If you have a job, you’re afraid of losing it. If I don’t have it, I’m afraid I won’t be able to find it. I find myself being afraid of others, feeling scared and isolated, and facing certain problems that are not good for my health. When I talk about health, I’m talking about health in general. The first health problem, general health, is not a heart problem or a tumor problem, although of course those exist. The main health problem is social inequality. This is the central theme.
Sometimes people die because they don’t have enough money to take the gel or even go to the hospital. And when they arrive at the hospital, they are in such dire conditions that they die. This manifests itself in general health and mental health in particular. I think this is a very important theme. I mean, this greedy capitalism still manifests itself today without idealization in specific countries like Norway or Sweden, but there is a kind of cliché about the possibility of finding collective solutions that has disappeared here.
Well, like that famous phrase imposed in this series eternaut: “No one can be saved alone.” This is the theme. And this is the central point in our relationship with this government, how it has won the so-called cultural struggle in certain sectors of the population. So this government is making certain sectors of the population believe that they can save themselves.
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