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Violence and Discontents: Ruptures in the Relationship Between Individual and Society



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André Oliveira Costa

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DOI:10.17265/2159-5542/2018.03.001

University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP–2015/04897-0), São Paulo, Brazil

Recognized by Norbert Elias himself, the influence of Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis on his work is well established. However, Elias relation to Freud’s work raises many questions. If the sociologist turned to it to support his thesis on the civilization process, he did not hesitate to make various criticisms. The last text of Norbert Elias The Freudian Concept of Society and Beyond is the first time when he discusses and analyses the Freudians theory and concepts in his work. The aim of this article is to clarify the terms of this criticism, to explain the intrinsic veracity less than the significance for Elias’s work, and to propose the violence on the body as an effect of the rupture on the relationship between individual and society.

social theory, psychoanalysis, Norbert Elias, Sigmund Freud