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Discourse of Capitalism and Psychical Evolutionism
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4454/khcnsp21Keywords:
Structuralism, Borromean clinic, psychic evolutionism, Differential diagnosis, paternal function, Capitalist discourseAbstract
According to the analyses of countless scholars from different disciplines, since 1970 capitalist societies have been characterized by an increasing social and economical precarization.
Based on a sociological analysis on the one hand or psychoanalytic on the other, a decay of the third would emerge, specifically to of the two disciplines, a distrust of the institutions in the first case and a loss of functioning of the paternal function in the second. So psychoanalysts, following the teaching of Lacan, make them the expression of the "Evaporation of the father", to
read the discontents of these societies. Starting from the clinical and placing it at the centre of
the debate,the article intends to grasp the contradictions of this diagnostic interpretation,demonstrating
not only its groundlessness, but also how its use feeds a nostalgic and reactionary policy.
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