A discursive framework (psychoanalytic) to understand the present political reality in Venezuela

Abstract

This article offers a discursive frame for the understanding of contemporary Venezuelan political reality. For such purpose, the author resorts to the notion of "discursive complex" (Parker, 1997) as a conceptual device in order to structure a narration that allows for the understanding of the national political scenario and its dynamic, a "profound structure" that will allow that reality to be read as a text. The intuition that orients such reading supposes the problematic condition of politics, and the political, in Venezuela as a result of a misunderstanding that emerges among the different political actors due to the two different ways in which they structure the surrounding world. Also, this article extends the hypothesis formulated by Gergen (1992) with respect to the saturation of the self in order to speak of the "saturation of the political", of the imbrication of these two possible ways of structuring political reality that generate a third form of configuration: the "pastiche". According to this, the actual moment is marked by confusion of actors and adjustment of means and ends. The author purposes the need of the creation of a project that recognizes the differences -the otherness- and that, at the same time, puts itself in a space in which the respect for the person will function as a pivot in order to unify different interests opposed in the political game.