Elementos para una psicología de las bandas de sicarios
Elements for an analysis of gangs of hired killers
Keywords:
sicarios, psicología de los grupos, bandas de sicarios, líder, padre, toteismo (es)father, killers, group psychology, gangs, totemism, leader (en)
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Este artículo aplica los axiomas freudianos de la psicología de los grupos, a la constitución, funcionamiento y disolución de las bandas de sicarios. El mecanismo psíquico primordial en este proceso es la identificación con el líder, los sujetos sustituyen el propio ideal del yo por esta figura tiránica y la sumisión a las normas grupales es lo que de esta identificación resulta. De otra parte, se analiza un rito de iniciación a un de estas bandas como un destello de totemismo que conduce a una interrogación sobre la función del padre que, en el caso particular, revela un semblante de padre obsceno o feroz que empuja a matar.
This paper applies the Freudian axioms on group psychology to the conformation, functioning and disbanding of gangs of hired killers. The principal psychical mechanism is identification with the leader: the subjects substitute their own ego-ideal for this tyrannical figure. Submission to the group's norms is the result of this identification. A rite of initiation in one of these gangs is also analyzed in terms of totemism, and this leads to an examination of the father-function which here appears as an obscene and ferocious figure that instigates murder.
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