Paranoid society: subjectivation and roots of hatred

Abstract

The hatred speeches basically combine two elements: the language and the emotion of aggression. They are the word-decoding of one of the most characteristic feelings of the human being.

Following the orientation of the Lacanian psychopedagogy, aggression traces its etiology within the relationship between the subject and his own social image, which only later is projected onto the other. In other words, there is no external object that autonomously has objective and intrinsic characteristics to arouse aggression and hate, but the latter are always the disguised consequence of a projective identification. Lacan's Theory of the Mirror, at the base of the psycho-pedagogical question of subjectivation, shows how the root of hate is, always, a paranoid root, or a displacement of something that belongs to the ego, towards an external object: the other.

Hatred speeches, in this sense, constitute a structural gap in the formation of the subject: they are the significant translation of an identifying mechanism that can only be understood through the educational relationship between the subject and his family romance.