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O presente trabalho tem o intuito de apresentar a teoria de Guy Debord para as discussões psicanalíticas relacionadas à teoria social e à política. Para tal propõe-se traçar a constituição conceitual de sua teoria sobre a sociedade do espetáculo, nascida da conjunção entre as discussões provenientes da crítica da economia política no campo marxista e a temática da superação da arte nas vanguardas artísticas, e articulando-a às aproximações teóricas que Debord faz com a psicanálise. Em um primeiro momento é apresentada a teoria do espetáculo como a atualização da alienação, reificação e fetichismo da mercadoria nas sociedades contemporâneas; ligando então esta reflexão à teoria freudiana do sonho através da analogia do espetáculo como sonho mau. Em um segundo momento é apresentada a teoria da superação do espetáculo, através das contradições internas do capitalismo avançado e a busca da revolução; ligando então esta reflexão com a psicanálise através da aproximação do capitalismo como inconsciente econômico que deve ser trazido à consciência pela prática revolucionária. Por fim conclui-se que apesar de Debord ser leitor de Freud, suas aproximações são um uso particular da teoria psicanalítica para a explicitação da teoria da sociedade do espetáculo; mas ainda assim uma aproximação rica para uma discussão psicanaliticamente orientada sobre a sociedade capitalista avançada / This work intends to present the theory of Guy Debord to psychoanalytic discussions related to social and political theory. To this end it is proposed to trace the conceptual constitution of his society of the spectacle theory, born from the conjunction of the discussions from the critique of political economy in the Marxist camp and the theme of the surpassing of art in the artistic avant-garde, linking this conjunction to the theoretical approaches that Debord makes to psychoanalysis. At a first moment the theory of the spectacle is presented as the update of alienation, reification and commodity fetishism in contemporary societies, then this reflection is linked to the Freudian dream theory through the analogy of the spectacle as a bad dream. In a second step the theory of the surpass of the spectacle is presented through the internal contradictions of advanced capitalism and the pursuit of revolution, then linking this discussion with psychoanalysis through the approximation of capitalism as an economic unconscious that must be brought to consciousness by the revolutionary practice. Finally it is concluded that although Debord is a reader of Freud, his approaches are a particular use of the psychoanalytic theory to the explanation of the society of spectacle theory, but it is still a rich approach for a psychoanalytically oriented discussion of the advanced capitalist society

A measure of four types and five contexts of alienation, as well as ten personality traits, was obtained via the ·application of the Alienation Test and Howarth's Personality Questionnaire. The sample (~= 195) comprised of both high school pupils and adults drawn from the local population of English and Afrikaans speaking Whites and "Coloureds" from a town in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. These six sample groups allowed for comparisons on the measures for factors such as race, age and cultural differences. The literature review showed repeated reference to the "alienation" of the "Coloured" people of South Africa in the political, social and cultural spheres. However, the research in this area has been sparse. The main object of the study, therefore, was to determine if "Coloureds" do feel alienated, as well as the contexts of this alienation, using Whites as a comparative group. possible differences in personality traits between "Coloureds" and Whites have been associated with the differences in behaviour exhibited by these two groups, but past research has failed to find many differences. The second objective of this study, therefore, was to determine if there are differences between the personality traits of "Coloureds" and Whites, and to extend the past research. Researchers have shown that there is a relationship between alienation and personality traits, but have not adequately addressed the nature of this relationship or its implications. Following from this, the third objective of the study was to examine the relationship between alienation and personality traits, as well as their ability to predict alienation. Results on the Alienation Test showed that "Coloureds" do differ significantly from Whites and exhibit far higher levels of alienation. These differences are most marked on those types and contexts of alienation reflecting a distance from the social and political environment. Results on the personality measure showed minimal differences in personality traits between the groups. Where they were evident, they could be attributed to environmental factors. Lastly, there was a relationship between alienation and certain personality traits, but these traits had limited power to predict alienation. Taking all findings of the study into account, it is evident that the social environment, and specifically a discriminatory social environment, affects feelings of alienation to a far greater extent than personality traits. In addition, the large differences in scores of the "Coloured" and White groups on the measure of alienation and the minimal differences on the measure of personality, provides evidence that what is measured by alienation and what is measured by personality traits, are two distinctly different constructs.