Abstract:.
Psychoanalysis, by radically changing the status of the subject from the notion of the “unconscious”, produced an unprecedented theory of the social bond and culture. Starting from the first social text of Freud, Totem and Taboo, we intend to demonstrate the understanding of democracy based on founding text and then present its unfolding and its affections from Group Psychology and the analysis of the Ego. The notion of “anomie” will be presented to understand the feats of the absence of a Democratic State of Right. This articulation will culminate in the idea of anomie together with the consequences of a social symptom in the contemporaneity.
Keywords:
Totem and taboo; democracy; mass; anomie