De Eros y Polis

Abstract

In this article I review the discrediting of politics as one of the features of our time. Far from being the result of citizens taking into their own hands the government of their own destinies, this dejection of politics corresponds to the flowering of impersonal mechanisms of power and control that, by their very nature, go unnoticed by the subjects. What really happens is the decline of the paternal principle, understanding it as the principle of authority that allows the subject to organize their desire and, with it, establish their autonomy. When this Law of the Father fails, the legitimacy of the social bond breaks down and violence erupts. All this is done by Foucault, Freud and Lacan.