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Passion and tenderness as political forces (https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2023.2231187)

  • To understand contemporary forms of social organization it is not enough to know the geopolitics that currently pertain; it is also necessary to enter the field of micropolitics and, particularly, the affections and sensibility modes that sustain the construction of social ties. In this field, psychoanalysis provides fundamental contributions to understand both the possibilities of adherence to forms of government and sociability, and as well as the construction of emancipation projects that aim to transform them. Different affections and sensibility modes will differently build social and political life. In distinguishing the language of passion from the language of tenderness, Ferenczi did not intend to have a political discussion, but we can use these notions to think about the current possibilities of political coexistence. Tenderness is the child's form of sensitivity, but also that of relationships of solidarity through dispossession. In this sense, the language of tenderness refers to the notion of vulnerability theorized by Judith Butler. It is not about defending a puerility or naivety, but a force of non-violence that, when affirmed, creates the possibility of a less unequal, fairer political coexistence, especially in countries immersed in a culture of hate such as Brazil.

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Author:Jô Gondar
Parent Title (English):International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 32 (No. 3, 2023), pp. 233-239.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2023
Release Date:2024/04/04
Format:PDF-scan upon request / PDF-Scan auf Anfrage
IdNo:Gondar_J_2023
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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