Abstract

FERNANDEZ, Omar D.; BENBENASTE, Narciso; BIGLIERI, Jorge  and  ESTEVEZ, Marilú. Subject, community and society: a study from the perspective of political psychology. Anu. investig. [online]. 2007, vol.14, pp.00-00. ISSN 1851-1686.

The aim of this work is to analyze the differences between the notions of community and society, and the type of subject they imply. Relations are established between community and mass, society and individual. According to Weber, the attitudes of the diverse subjects in a society are oriented towards a compensation of interests based on rational motives, whereas in a community, their attitudes rely on the sense of being part of a whole. The social and political theories of authors such as Durkheim and Kornhauser are also relevant to this study, but Freud's theoretical developments constitute the basis for the proposed analysis, especially those related to the concept of mass and its bond to the leader. It is suggested that the features included in the notion of community -as replacement for that of society- and the libidinal bond between leader and mass are characteristic of populist regimes, in which the subject is not the citizen in the classical Aristotelian sense, but rather "the people" displaying behavior close to that characteristic of a mass as defined in psychoanalytic terms.

Keywords : Community; Society; Mass; Individual.

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