From Jacques Derrida’s concept of «event», contemporary socio-cultural changes and their impact on the Oedipean organization are addressed, along with their influence on current sufferings. Hypotheses, drawn from studies on complexity, chaos, and self-organization, are proposed to contemplate the consequences and future of these changes.
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Self-awareness, Oedipus, feminine, technology, biologization, self-organization, attractor.
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[Automatic translation from Spanish]:
Where is Oedipus going? That is the question we could ask ourselves in the present times. We could also ask ourselves the question of what forms it manifests itself today and in what ways it could be expressed in the future. We take it for granted that the oedipal drama passes through the land of the Law, of the identifications it entails and in a special way encompassing all this the place of the Father and the functions inherent in this place where the Desire was born.
We see in the clinic, and more in what we see in today’s society, an alluvium of disturbing sufferings, especially in youth, where there are confusions, distress, volatility of ties, difficulties in the complicated teenage process of feeling possessed of a gender, of minimal compromises in object elections; often following Bauman, liquid relations. We are horrified when we see the recourse to self-mutilations as a way to relieve body pain, the psychic suffering that is not welcomed by ‘what’ should be here, the surgical changes that supposedly solve something inherent in life that is conflict, and let’s not say the terrible drama of child or puberal suicide when these creatures do not yet come to conceive of what death is. We also see an emptiation of psychic discourse when any suffering is attributed exclusively to biological and, therefore, denying any responsibility to personnel or relational.
We could say that ‘what was there is no longer and what is to come is unknown’. We are currently facing an ‘event’ in derridic terms. Something new has appeared for which we were not prepared, nor imagined, nor do we know or possess the means to deal with it. Several months ago, I went to see the drama of Oedip Rex[…]
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