Da anulação da singularidade ao narcisismo das pequenas diferenças: o que a psicologia das massas nos ensina sobre a constituição da subjetividade?

Abstract

It is intended to contribute mass phenomenon’s analysis and its correlation to subjectivity constitution, analyzing three aspects of the freudian essay: 1) An examination of the first elaborations on mass psychology, split into two terms: first, examining the texts lead to the making of “Mass Psychology and Ego Analysis” that circumscribe the accumulated knowledge in regards to mass psychology studies; secondly, retaking Freud's considerations on mass psychology's libidinal structure. The main idea is, through a diachronic outlook, to follow the appropriation and to emphasize the impact of mass pschologys studies into the freudian theory of mass psychology. Para isso, firstly the aim is to read into how the pioneer authors of mass psychology studies - Le Bon, McDougall and Wifred Trotter - conceived the mass psychology; afterwards, the goal is to analyis freudian’s outlook mass psychology’s libidinal structure and the kind of object choice is at stake into the leader’s election. 2) A study on the three identification sources described by Freud in 1921, taking in consideration the level of indetermination of the concept and its transformations throughout being articulated to other psychoanalytic concepts. Thus, the idea of identification as a fundamental process to ego formation and to the formation of the mass, was developed by the means of the present research. 3) An analysis of small differences' narcisism and segregative processes into the mass from a trajectory work on the antithetic sense of that expression. In order to work through these issues, it was looked into three works where small diferences’ narcisism is discussed: Virignity’s Taboo (1918), its recovery by Mass Psychology and Ego Analysis (1921) and the conclusions of Civilization and Its Discontents (1930). In short, the first study aims to think through the field of mass psychology and the upbringing of psychoanalytical thought to this field, and the second aims to examine the sources of identification into freudian theory, and in the third term of this work was to elaborate on the segregative aspects of the mass.