The purpose of this essay is to present, from Jorgelino Vergara’s speech “el mocito”, aspects associated with the concepts of “obedience” and “cruelty”, and “banality of evil” which will be put into discussion with the psychoanalytic concepts of enjoyment and death drive. The work is organized on one hand describing what we understand from the classical perspective of “obedience” in La Boétie, while describing “cruelty” on the other hand as Jacques Derrida definition, to finally show the contemporary articulation with which Hanna Arendt tries to describe obedience and cruelty in totalitarian contexts. In a second moment, these notions can be problematized from psychoanalysis, trying to show how the drive of death and enjoyment, as human
tendencies, account for a self-destructive tendency in their own center. In this analysis/work you will be able to understand an unrecognized aspect of the human experience, such as cruelty in a position of obedience, an “extimity” experience, that is, your
own rejected experience as external to what we can define as human.
Granifo Molina, F. (2020). The cruelty in the speech of jorgelino vergara, “el mocito”: Obedience in totalitarian contexts of cruelty without alibi. Revista Bricolaje, (6), 36–45. Retrieved from https://avancesveterinaria.uchile.cl/index.php/RB/article/view/58046
