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Consideration of the institution’s role in the
subject’s debasement
is the starting point of this document. The hierarchical
structures of the
institution determine a framework that translates into
different degrees of
dehumanization. Ranking and stratification, so blatant
in totalitarian systems,
are part of seemingly democratic organizations that
affect subjectivity
in general and interfere with thought processes in particular.
The assumption that the mind is intrinsically unable
to represent traumatic
events would depend upon that which in a totalitarian
system is shown
by the prohibition to think. This returns to the idea,
abandoned by Freud, that
it is the ideal self that examines reality. In their
capacity as an institution of
the psyche, the ideal, omnipotent representations of
the ideal self yield to
what society prescribes. The power of beliefs in the
construction of perception,
representation and thought is approached from this standpoint.
The
submission to the Other shown by believing leads the
author to define the
concept of autonomy and the difference between morals
and ethics in its
relationship with repetition and creation.
In psychoanalytical practice, the possibility of creating
by symbolizing the
unconscious will depend on an asymmetry that is not
solved by patient and
analyst (which would lead to a repetition) but by recognizing
that they are
both subject to the unconscious mind. The distinction
proposed by the author
between positive transfer and a transfer that is sublimated
by the notion of
the unconscious attempts to clarify this perception.
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