An essential text to understand mass phenomena and their relationship with subjectivity. That is, how the libidinal bond is built where the "I" is in the "we". For this, the author divides two texts: Mass and power by E. Canetti and Psychology of the masses and analysis of the self by S. Freud. From here he opens the field of his reflection based on the thought of León Rozitchner, especially his work The Thing and the Cross. This space has to do with the very materiality of subjectivity, with the archaic historicity of the body itself.
But this path -the author warns us- is in this instance only words. The royal road, the one that constitutes the recovery of the collective experience, the one that would not place beyond the fear of being touched has another materiality. From this perspective he affirms: “Marx said that humanity has long dreamed of possessing something that it o...read more