La crueldad en el discurso de jorgelino vergara, “el mocito”: La obediencia en contextos totalitarios de crueldad sin coartada

  • Granifo Molina, Felipe
Publication date
July 2020
Publisher
Universidad de Chile

Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to present, from Jorgelino Vergara’s speech “el mocito”, aspects associated with the concepts of “obedience” and “cruelty”, and “banality of evil” which will be put into discussion with the psychoanalytic concepts of enjoyment and death drive. The work is organized on one hand describing what we understand from the classical perspective of “obedience” in La Boétie, while describing “cruelty” on the other hand as Jacques Derrida definition, to finally show the contemporary articulation with which Hanna Arendt tries to describe obedience and cruelty in totalitarian contexts. In a second moment, these notions can be problematized from psychoanalysis, trying to show how the drive of death and enjoyment, as human ten...

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