Auschwitz como telos de la agresión y la guerra
Auschwitz as Telos of War and Agression
Keywords:
Freud, Lacan, Auschwitz, Deshumanización, Imaginario, Musulmán, Yo narciso (es)Freud, Lacan, Auschwitz, Dehumanization, Imaginary, Muslim, Narcissistic ego (en)
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Auschwitz is often seen as a historical singularity, an event that cannot be explained using traditional categories that account for human aggression. This article seeks to explain, following Freud and Lacan, that what happened there is a sample of the de-humanizing activity that is inherent in all wars, in this case taken to a maximum degree in the concentration camp. Aggression seeks de-humanization more than it seeks death; this is what the image of the Muslim in concentration camps shows. Muslim was the name of jewish concentration camp prisoners that had lost their humanity because of the mistreatment they received, that is, because of the power exercised over their narcissistic egos. We find that the narcissistic ego explains the necessity we have of imposing our humanity over others, to the point of creating imaginary signifiers that de-humanize those that do not share our humanity; in war, this de-humanization becomes real; the culmination of this de-humanization is the non–human, who has entirely lost his ego.
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