Sigmund Freud, quoting Le Bon, marks the subject, member of the masses, the seal of barbarism. Michel Roussan analyzes Freud's text “Mass psychology and ego analysis” of 1921 and attach this work to the structure of the four speeches invented by Jacques Lacan. The connections with our present time cannot be avoided.
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“The slave is defined by the fact that someone has power over his body” told us Jacques Lacan. The master needs tools to ensure the docility of the slave. In the past it was the whip, the rifle, the police, judges etc. Nowadays new tools are at his disposal, Science, mass media, the police, Internet, the LBDs, the fines, the judges, etc. In the past, these tools formatted the slave, the sufferings, fear of death, the feeling of inferiority, etc. Today is the fear of tomorrow, fear of mutilation, fear of illness and death, infantilization, guilt, etc. We propose to find the dialectic of master and slave in the master's discourse that Lacan taught us, and to find in the discourse of the university the tools that the teacher uses as tools of enslavement.
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