Nothing new or mostly enlightening is provided by pointing out that social networks and the cybernetic world have become a scenario for the deployment of a colonized, enjoys and excessive self, a self without edges. In short, one self without the other.
Capitalism, in its neoliberal aspect, promotes an imperative of individual success; It demands a body linked to the act and despises a body inscribed in the word. One body detached from the other, another one that becomes competition or hindrance. Bodies discouraged in a time commanded under an implicit motto: “The other does not exist.”
In this scenario, which weakens the forces of the collective and encourages the “forces of heaven”, messianic speeches are massified that proclaim a freedom that masks political practices linked to cruelty.
By the way, in its key text “The Church and the Army, two artificial masses”, Sigmund Freud opens a door to reflect on the psychic and political link that unites religious and military discourses. Everything works according to a submission loop. The deep key of human relations in these spaces is the submission to high controls (the forces of heaven?). In this sense, it is essential to question speeches that degrade social fabric from the most distinctive: the difference.
It is then possible to ask whether the difficulty (or the intention?) Of the president of the Nation to point to the LGTBIQ+ community as an ator Recognize them as others in the dimension of love.
The community human rights movement in our country has been the epicenter of a long struggle and social conquests since the early seventies (equal marriage, gender identity law, trans cup law, single -parent adoption, etc.) . But it has also meant, in terms of social representations, the possibility that the members of this minority think and build within a project of love, family and work. In short, in a collective project.
Is this what is “unforgivable” for the most retrograde and conservative sectors? Its inclusion in the world of rights, but also in love?
In times of another that does not exist, diluted between brilliant coaching and self -help speeches that insist that “you have to learn to love oneself to love others,” we attend the disappearance of the other in the experience of love.
Lacan warns that “everything is affected by the dimension of otherness. If the desire is the desire of the other … if the self is the image of the other … freedom is not without another. ” The conception of freedom in Lacan is deeply social; There is no ties based on love, powerful and transformers. Therefore, there is no possibility of exercising freedom without the guarantee of rights. How to build the future of love in the time of another that does not exist?
In 1927, Freud wrote “the future of an illusion”, where he defines the notion of “oceanic feeling”, an idea that raises the feeling of completeness, of being “one with the world”, associated with religious principles of totality. A totality that is sustained at the expense of the denial of otherness and diversity. How to recover the uniqueness of a group that is again attacked by totalizing and segregationist speeches?
In a system that imposes the idealization of the present, the desire as a political act promotes a project to the history and construction of a future with another. In a context where diversities insist on appointing themselves as the rest, going to the streets is an act of resistance to the threats of loss of spaces and rights conquered, precisely by those who should guarantee them.
And diversity cannot exist without desire, because otherwise it would be submission. It is necessary to move the stigma and face the enigma of the encounter with the other. Because the enigma generates questions, gives voice, transforms and builds bridges with that other that is convened, hugs into a square, marches and amplifies its songs. An other that is recognized in the collective and that raises its flag by those who, historically, have been excluded from their rights and also from the dimension of love. Because love is not just a religious commandment: love is a right.
* Psychologist and professor in Psychology, graduated from the University of Buenos Aires. Psychoanalyst, a clinic specialist with children and adolescents. Professor of the subject Public Health and Mental Health, Chair II, in the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Buenos Aires.
By Jorge Prado *
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