Megalomania

Respuesta a un profano en psicoanálisis sobre el concepto del Otro con mayúscula y el complejo de castración, ese Otro como parte del mundo externo, que nos trasmite el uso del lenguaje, que en un inicio es un amparador, que puede alienarnos en una fantasía de fusión, si no apare el Otro como padre separador. Como ese Otro es tan importante en la fase del espejo, para la constitución del yo (moi), en ese otro virtual, que es un semejante. Lo que ilustro con el caso Juanito y el de los protagonistas de la película de Bernardo Bertolucci, "La luna". Se habla del Otro tachado en el final de análisis, donde ha caído ese Otro que es el Sujeto del Supuesto Saber. Y hablo del Otro en la psicosis de Schreber.

For many observers the morning of November 9th 2016 was a rude awakening. Apart from a smattering of “prophets of doom” like Michael Moore, few intellectuals anticipated Trump’s electoral success. Besides revealing a certain weakness of most theoretical or media predictions, such unexpected news restored some crucial issues to the core of public debate. Trump’s victory should refocus public attention on the historical relationships between so-called baiting crowds and power: as Canetti defines it, a baiting crowd “forms with reference to a quickly attainable goal,” [3] and that goal is typically to do violence to human prey, whether enacted through murder or through the systematic exclusion of an individual or a group of people from a certain political space. Further, there are different ways of hunting humans via exclusion: baiting crowds can hunt down and exclude human prey outside the boundaries of a certain community — by rejecting or expelling them — or inside the boundaries by imprisoning, stigmatizing and humiliating them.

The text touches the problem of contemporary monuments of gigantic scale, created in 2011 in Swiebodzin (statue of Christ the King) and 2013 in Czestochowa (monument of John Paul II). Their shape and place of erection are the results of ambitions of their local initiators, as well as their financial capabilities and aesthetic sensitivity. These elements resulted in the statues ridiculed because of their shape, while aspiring to break records in their respective categories. They are excellent illustration of both the objectification of the memory of John Paul II and the efforts to artificially strengthen the Faith.