Vladimir Pinheiro Safatle, Author at Public Seminar

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Neoliberalism with An Inhuman Face

How Bolsonaro won and how the Left failed in Brazil

November 8, 2018 • by Vladimir Pinheiro Safatle

The consolidation of the Brazilian extreme right is a recent fact and deserves to be debated in a more analytical fashion. Even though Brazil had significant parts of its society immersed in the tacit defense of the military dictatorship and in actions marked by the absence of any social solidarity ...

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This Fight Would Take Place Someday

An impassioned appeal for resoluteness in the face of right wing reaction

October 26, 2018 • by Vladimir Pinheiro Safatle

This text is for those who weep for what is about to come. It was written for those who perceive the darkest of nights arriving with its violence, its scorn and its appetite for vengeance. Because in these moments only two alternatives seem possible: escape and melancholy. We know the ...

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Adorno’s Freud in the Age of Trump

Part 1

October 2, 2017 • by Vladimir Pinheiro Safatle

Let us recall Freud's fundamental thesis in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. In this text, Freud presents a general proposition about the process of constitution of collective identities. It is enunciated as follows: "such a primary mass is an amount (Anzahl) of individuals who have placed a single ...

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The Politics of Incorporation

The limits of populism in a psychoanalytic perspective

May 17, 2017 • by Vladimir Pinheiro Safatle

In recent decades, contemporary political philosophy has pathologized the psychological processes involved in politics. Emphasizing rational action, political philosophy has deemed affect, the political imaginary, and dynamics of identification and incorporation negatively, as potential spaces of distortion or social regression. One of the major consequences of this perspective is to reduce ...

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Open Letter to International Academic Community

April 4, 2016 • by Vladimir Pinheiro Safatle

We, professors and researchers from Brazilian universities, address the International Academic Community to report a serious breach of law that is taking place in Brazil right now. After a long history of coups and a violent military dictatorship, our country has been living, until today, its longest period of democratic stability ...