Sergio Zabalza: “This government of evil people and scoundrels wants everyone to be locked in their cave”

2024-10-10 15:21:00

On International Mental Health Day, Sergio Zabalza wrote the article The keys to escape from Argentine masochism, in which he summarizes that, to achieve well-being, we must approach the Freudian maxim that mental health requires love and work. The psychologist explained that Argentina is immersed in an attraction to suffering and that it must avoid moving away, which is what the Government is asking for. “The minute we got locked down, we started going backwards,” he said Fontevecchia modeOf Television network, Radio profile (AM 1190) yes Radio Amedeo (FM 91.1).

Sergio Zabalza has a degree in Psychology from UBA, a master’s degree in Clinical Psychoanalysis from the University of San Martín and is a professor of the diploma in Advanced Studies in Psychoanalysis.

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Freud He was able to masterfully summarize the two keys that allow life to unfold in a way that is closer to well-being than to discomfort: love and work. Loving, on the one hand, allows us to distance ourselves from ourselves and this is a huge relief. Working, on the other hand, allows you to build and not think about nonsense. Loving beings are very complex and it often happens that we manage to suffer, instead of doing things to be better and in good company.

What is happening today in the Argentine Republic is a masochism scene. Society is gripped by this attraction to suffer and continues to support a sadistic subject who likes to hurt. One of the most evident manifestations of this sadistic attraction is the closure of hospitals, especially the one on mental health, which is no coincidence.

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To numb a society or community, they need to be distressed and paralyzed. There are two positions of anguish: one is the anguish that paralyzes and throws the subject into despair, and the other is the anguish that makes the subject generate and work. So much so that Freud said that the cure occurs in the anxiety that guides us, through which we work, we wake up and realize that something is wrong.

I have the impression that, at this moment, Argentine society is divided between these two issues: that paralyzing anguishwhich is what we experience day after day because we are overwhelmed by the amount of evil and misdeeds committed by the President and his entourage, and by the other anguish, what you need to work and allows the professionals, operators and patients of the Laura Bonaparte Hospital to be protagonists of an epic undertaking.

I emphasize the word epic because the epic is what allows us to love and work, and today, through social networks, it is what is most crushed and impoverished in the human experience. Yes Achilles it would not have existed in classical Greece, it would not have existed Socrates In Plato In Aristotle. What unites human beings is the passion for love and work. First of all we have a body and for it to be expressed the epic is necessary.

Our teenagers are sick and crushed by this digital madness that keeps them locked up. This latest decision by the National Securities Commission allows those who are over 13 years of age invest in the stock market It is an aberration and one of many produced by the current regime we are experiencing.

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One of the ways to take care of the mental health of those of us who work in the industry is to be able to get together, talk and work. We are people and if there is something we cannot lack, it is words.

In the article I wrote, I raise the topic of vulnerability. We are essentially vulnerable because we are made up of the words of others and we need someone to speak to us. The moment we remain locked down, we begin to retreat. This government of evil people and scoundrels wants everyone to be locked in their cave. Milei is a guy who doesn’t make controversies, he simply insults. In the utterance of the insult the message is “Shut up”.

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PC: There is another way of communicating and reasoning that seeks to be communicated by those spheres, right?

Everything that has to do with questioning, with questioning, with journalism and with criticism is precisely what opens up, which is a bit like what an analyst does. When an analyst receives a patient, he is not there to indoctrinate him, he is there to ask why the patient has to work.

If we think that society occupies a similar place to that of the patient, we must ask ourselves Why we support it, it’s crazy.

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