Auschwitz con Hiroshima

Psychoanalysis is considered to be a strange science which function is to situate something that has no identity, that does not relates the subject with him or herself by other means but by getting -their identity- lost in that same act of placing them in situation. If Psychoanalysis is that, then referring to this science as a discourse about the accumulation and concentration of objects regarding identity is the least that can be said about it. The way its discursivity proceeds locates it at the back side of another discourse, that of the master, and particularly, in the «other side» -also at the back- of the fake discourse of the capitalist master.

Let’s be clear: in Lacan, discourse means to say “social bond”, kinds of social bond which constitute what is called “culture”. It is precisely culture, though, that is endangered in face of the potential threat represented by the workings of the deregulated capitalism in its current stage of financial predominance. It is also because it is about a fake discourse which trend moves towards the destruction of social bonds, it forces to isolation, to the repression or to the perverse positions of subjectivity. The human existence -the only place in which “existence” can be considered- is here taken as a rest of its operation, which is fundamentally an operation of consumption.

This book deals with the concentrationary effect of this fake discourse on contemporary subjectivity, and with the way in which this effect appears in the speech of analysants. A logic of accumulation that heralds a catastrophic way out: the outbreak, as some current symptomatologies manifest. The shadows of the 20th century still fall over us by means of their devastating effects which are expressed in particular ways on each of the speakers: Auschwitz with Hiroshima, accumulation and outbreak, a return to the endless cycle of a consumerist as well as enslaver waste. Another way out is the one proposed by the psychoanalytic discourse, a social bond that questions that individualistic tendency towards the appropriation of “self” in terms of the ego autonomy and self-esteem.