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2023-01-29T10:28:15.107Z


Anxiety disorders Some statistics indicate that anxiety is one of the ailments for which psychiatrists medicate the most these days. The restlessness that crosses us is constant as well as the perception of the perspective of different forms of pain. And, like never before, many people find themselves alone, isolated, even by their own choice, which not only does not contribute but contributes to the picture. Emil


Some statistics indicate that anxiety is one of the ailments for which psychiatrists medicate the most these days.

The restlessness that crosses us is constant as well as the perception of the perspective of different forms of pain.

And, like never before, many people find themselves alone, isolated, even by their own choice, which not only does not contribute but contributes to the picture.

Emile Durkheim already pointed out in the 19th century that some of the serious social problems we suffer from are due to the deterioration of group life.

French philosophers, he claimed, had exalted a "science of the self" rather than a philosophy of social man, of "we."

Without authority, without effective moral or legal checks, only an overflow of selfishness would have unfolded ever since.

Durkheimian man found life intolerable in that society which gave him a sense of lack and emptiness while his parents had known the joys of companionship and security.

Today we see how cultural transformations have weakened an image of "we" that allows us to tie ties of trust and social cooperation, and we even see on a daily basis the difficulty of politics in generating shared meanings in this sense.

In a world in which interest had become the god of humanity, demanding the sacrifice of morality, it was the responsibility of the sociologist -according to Durkheim- to study how the sanctification of those private interests was accompanied by a degradation of public morality.

When only individual appetites remained, we were faced with a society that would inevitably bring a high rate of crime, suicide, and divorce in its bourgeois quest for "happiness."

Violent deaths were inevitable in a sickly acquisitive society tainted by individualism.

In our days, a disenchanted and painful world of multitudes undergoing psychotherapies in which they learn to preserve themselves from others, to fulfill themselves more than to commit themselves to a group or social institution, has threatened any possibility of resurrection of a "we".

We search for it like this to survive alienated within an anomic society without diminishing the customary humiliations of every day.

Our society has long entered a period of instability and threat, but since human beings cannot bear too much reality, we flee towards the closest and most legitimate fictions.

Undoubtedly the fiction of the "I" and its power is not a minor among them.

These are times when some of the most precious aspects of the human condition - friendship, love, commitment - are at risk, announcing an inhospitable landscape.

That's why it's so hard to feel at home.

And if we continue to be encouraged -as is the case- to empower ourselves individually and increase our personal capacity for influence as a privileged way of building our identity, underestimating our condition and potential as social beings, it will not be possible to live without fear and in peace with ourselves and with the rest.

Talk about it in therapy.

Daniel Scarfo is a sociologist.

Source: clarin

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