Perversão: uma erótica mortífera do laço social

Abstract

This study sought to research social perversion based on the contributions of Freud and contemporary authors, with the aim of highlighting the conflict between subject and culture. The central question of this research implies elucidating the fundamentals of the perversion of the social bond, bringing perversity to the center of the discussion as an articulating point between the desire for destruction and the malaise as a human condition. Two hypotheses are formulated about the constitution of perversion in the social bond. The first would be in the subject's constitution process, which is formulated both by the impetus of Eros and by the potential to destroy the death drives. In this way, the foundations of Eros that sustain the social bond and the civilizing pact, fail. In the general objective of this research, we sought to understand the perversion of the social bond considering the antitheses that are established between subject and culture. As specific objectives, the trajectory of perversion was analyzed under the sexual paradigm for the hostile manifestations present in intersubjective relationships. At the end of this journey, perversity proved to be a central element of social perversion. As research methodology, bibliographic review was used in order to select the Freudian and post-Freudian texts that dialogue with the thematic proposal, and the conceptual analysis of these same texts to build the theoretical exposition necessary for the present articulations. In the development of this research, perversity was elucidated as the union of three registers: hate, cruelty and violence. It is from these that perversity is taken as the expression of radical human evil and presents itself as a possible horizon for the perversion of the social bond. As it is linked to the subject's relations with culture, perversity reveals the endless struggle between the death drives and Eros, and the primacy of the first over the second. From this structural antithesis, it was revealed that the psychic work that founded the culture on the demand for sublimation of perverse instinctual goals, also highlights the destructive reach of the death instincts within the culture itself. It is under the paradigm of drive defusion that the articulation between death drive and perverse social bond can be elucidated.