Narcisismo e cultura: a relação entre psicologia individual e psicologia social na obra freudiana
Abstract
This work aims to show how the relationship between social psychology and individual
psychology is thought about in Freudian theory. It broaches the issue separating nature and
culture, which is dealt with in Freudian discourse as fundamental to the makeup of the
subject. Along these lines, we highlight two psychoanalytic concepts that surround the
problem: narcissism and identification. The theory of narcissism in its intersubjective
dimension provides the basis of examining the opposition between these psychologies and a
metaphysiological foundation of social bonding, and therefore, of the very makeup of culture
in the Freudian perspective. Beginning with the preliminary analysis of Freud s entry into the
discussion of phylogenesis, we go through a discussion of the theory of narcissism through
which the death instinct takes the stage. We then discuss this concept in its essential
dimension - aggressiveness considering the context of reformulations in the psychic
apparatus. Finally, we discuss the conception of the psychoanalytic subject as a potential
enemy of civilization , of culture as produced by unconscious and irreconcilable conflicts;
and the social and individual psychologies as mutually constituting each other