ABSTRACT:
This essay aims to investigate the relation between the notion of “oceanic feeling” and a type of social bond distinct from group formation and which would be made explicit singularly in the field of art, in which the boundaries between individuals are destabilized in favor of a kind of transmission of desire, under the discursive mode of the well-known dream in which the dead son appears to the father and asks him “Father, don’t you see that I’m burning?”. The paper also examines, inconclusively, the possibility that such a discursive strategy characterized by literality and indexicality could constitute a political force against group fascism.
Keywords:
oceanic feeling; death-drive; dreams; social bond
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