Totalitarianism on the march! Analysis by Ariane Bilheran
- Ariane Bilheran
- Feb 19, 2024
- 29 min read
Totalitarianism on the march! Analysis by Ariane Bilheran
Following our report on "The Dictatorship on the Move!", in the latest issue of "Elements", we interviewed Ariane Bilheran at length, who has just published a very rich Psychopathologie du totalitarisme published by Guy Trédaniel. A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure, philosopher, clinical psychologist, doctor in psychopathology, and collaborator of "Antipresse" by our friend and collaborator Slobodan Despot, no one was better placed than Ariane Bilheran to analyze the current context of repression, returning in particular to the notion of totalitarianism whose shadow hangs over our heads.
ELEMENTS:
Contemporary political philosophy clearly contrasts totalitarianism and democracy. Does this distinction still seem relevant to you?
ARIANE BILHERAN:
In 2010, in an essay entitled Tous des harcelés?, I created this oxymoron of "totalitarian democracy" to describe a political regime that gives itself the appearance of democracy but allows itself to be increasingly taken over by totalitarian processes every day. Let's say that we are no longer in a democracy at all because in a democracy the people are sovereign. The people no longer decide anything; power has been confiscated from them: all they have to do is suffer.
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