A violência e a guerra : uma abordagem sócio- psicanalítica

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2007

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The dissertation discusses violence as a social fact. It emphasizes the study of current wars since it is during war that violence emerges in a especially intense way. Violence will be examined here from a perspective which tries to integrate sociologic and psychoanalytic theories. The idea is to identify the main character of collective violence in the civilizing process, understood in a broad sense. The aim is to call attention to the similar feature of different violent events wars, rebellions, terrorism, as well as corporate disputes and all other struggles where the desire to dominate the enemy, an opponent, serves to justify the recourse to violent methods. The concept of war is, then, predominantly used in a metaphoric way. The fundamental analytical reference to understand human violence used in this thesis is Sigmund Freuds concept of death drive, a self-destructive human impulse which is both unconscious and innate. To Freud, the death drive is in permanent conflict with the opposing impulse, the life drive, a constructive impulse which impels men towards love. The work is divided in two parts: first, violence and war are analyzed as historical, sociological, and political phenomena; second, they are approached through the lens of psychoanalytic theory. The epistemological/methodological perspective favored here derives from the contrasting views of Émile Durkheims traditional approach that every social fact is caused by other social facts and Jon Elsters principle of methodological individualism. In our view, the use of these two approaches in a complementary way leads to a more efficient way to address the questions of violence and war.

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violence psicanálise war psychoanalysis guerra sociologia violência

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