Dialogue with Cynthia Fleury
Becoming aware of the forms of alienation in today’s society also means reactivating our political power outside the pitiful spectacle offered by politicians and the paths to servitude that they want to trace for us.
To free ourselves from resentment is to rediscover our capacity for initiative and sharing with others while recognizing the uniqueness of each person. But this requires a return to a human quality that commercial individualism has all but destroyed: humility, an indispensable condition for emerging from the swelling of egos and the deadly separations in which they confine us.
A fascinating presentation that we invite you to discover or rediscover in these times when the manipulators of the system play on resentment to better separate us from one another with the aim of establishing their own power, while the living world is falling apart.
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Summary
Political philosophy and psychoanalysis share a problem that is essential to the life of men and societies, this deep-seated discontent that corrupts their existence. Of course, the object of the analysis remains the quest for origins, the understanding of the inner being, of its failings, its troubles and its desires. But there comes a time when knowledge is not enough to heal, to calm, to appease.
To do so, we must overcome grief, anger, mourning, renunciation and, most importantly, resentment, that bitterness that can get the better of us even though we could discover its subtle and liberating taste. The democratic adventure also offers a confrontation with victimizing rumination. The question of good governance can be overshadowed by this one: what can be done, at whatever level, institutional or otherwise, to ensure that this democratic entity knows how to stem the resentment impulse, the only one that can threaten its sustainability? Here we are, individuals and the rule of law, facing the same challenge: diagnosing resentment, its dark force, and resisting the temptation to make it the driving force of individual and collective stories.