DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT AND SOCIAL CONTROL: IS POSSIBLE THE TOTALITARIAN PHENOMENON WITHIN THE SAME SOCIETY?

Noting the conflict as an important element both in the formation of social bonds, and in the movement of society, this study aims to analyze, from a multidisciplinary approach, the tensions contained in the relationship between group and individual. These tensions come in this text exemplified by those resulting from relationships that threaten both the unity of the social fabric as the freedom of the individual. In other words, this study faces the issue as a problem, apparently paradoxical, that gives title: the totalitarian phenomenon is possible in a democracy? To this end, this text is divided into three parts. At first, looking up, in the light of Freudian thought, recover the theological discussion on human autonomy, the moment that the power of the Church approached political power. In the first half, there was the French Revolution as the time to reverse this thinking, dominant throughout the Middle Ages. In the second part, totalitarianism is observed as the complete suppression of human autonomy, muffling conflicts and braking the movement of society itself. Finally, in the third part, they are subject to the restrictions typical of totalitarianism to democracy. For this research we used the hypothetical-deductive method. Since the technique used was the bibliographical research.