Pierre Valentin: “Insoumise France represents the party of “It”, that of release and impulses”

A professor doused in gasoline, thirty universities blocked, a lady burned in the face in Marseille by a fifteen-year-old using a homemade flamethrower, a policewoman beaten to the ground, stores looted in Tours, Paris... While the “blockade of high school students” is already degenerating into urban violence, the last few days have reminded us of the extent to which a significant part of generation Z (those aged 13-31) experience a form of enjoyment in the destruction.

As Maurice Berger, child psychiatrist, and Alexandre Stobinksy, magistrate, note, “this violence testifies to a youth who seems to take a jubilant pleasure in annihilating”. How can we explain it?

In 1984, the historian Christopher Lasch conceptualized the existence of three psychoanalytic “parties”, modeled on the Freudian tripartition of the psyche, with the “Id” (our unconscious desires and impulses), the “I” (what is rational and conscious) and the “Superego” (the forbidden…