Identity, identification and segregation

virtual lynchings and the Culture of Cancellation

Abstract

This article aims to understand what is the Cancel Culture and what are the psychoanalytics issues that cause the individual, at the center of contemporary society - capitalist and hyperconnected – to identify himself with tribes and  to engage in these practices that want the cancelation of the other. We ill consider the psychoanalytic studiy of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan on the aspects of Identity and Identification of individuals, which lead us to the processes of hostilization and segregation of the different. With that, we build a paradigm seeking an ideal that implicates in fighting the other in everyway and everywhere. Creating the idea that it will be possible to extermine the different and maintain the unity, which, in a way, reveals the identitary fragility of the subject in the social organization.