The news: http://santiagotimes.cl/state-security-law-invoked-to-deal-with-angry-drivers/

 The news written by Linn Helene Loken, talks about the conflict which “colectivo” drivers have with the government of Michelle Bachelet. The last Thursday (18^th of November), the drivers make a strike; they were blocking streets of many cities of Chile. The protestors insist on get some facilities for their work, like to be exempt from the combustible fuel tax, be available for them to receive a government bonus for the upkeep of vehicles and subsidies, as to those granted to Transantiago, the protesters were also demanding about not being able to drive in bus lanes, because they consider themselves a part of public transportation.

In this context, the government invoked the state security law; Carabineros say they arrested 10 drivers at the moment of the strike. Matias Salazar, Santiago’s Regional Secretary of Transport, justify the decision based on the “violence” against the freedom and security of Chilean people.

This is a strange form to confront the laboral claim of the union, in general, we use to hear the use of this judicial tool in cases associated to Mapuche conflict, being in all the opportunities an issue of controversy, but, sadly, it isn’t new to inkove the state security law in this matter, it was already used against port workers in San Antonio, (January in 2014), and against the Aysen Movement in 2012.

I choose this news because I believe that social sciences cannot be left indifferent in this matters, I read in the “colectivo” drives conflict an economic problem, an utilitarian demand, but it’s not a political movement, I remembered the strike made by Manuel Navarrete, Orlando Panza, Marcel Antoine, Armando Huerta y Demetrio Marinakis, owner of yellow buses, before the introduction of Transantiago. I think it’s so interesting, trying at least, propose alternatives readings of political processes in macro and micro structures, although it was a little text J

Good bye Lenin! (2003)

A movie that I enjoyed so much is called “Good bye Lenin!”, I saw it in 2010, when I was studying in Bachillerato, and we needed see it because in my class of sociology we had to do an essay related to some aspect of the movie. It was filmed in 2003, and the actors who participated are Daniel Brühl (Alexander Kerner in the movie), Katrin Sass (Christiane, Alexander´s mother) and Chulpan Khamatova (Lara, Alexander´s girlfriend). 

It is a fiction film, but it´s mixed with reality facts, because the history is located between 1990 and 1991 in East Germany (ex-RDA), and the argument is about a guy who isn´t interested on political events of Germany, his mother is an activist of communist party of RDA, almost blind of the speeches, until she suffer a health accident after her son is arrested in a public protest, and she lose her memory. Alexander have to make a sense for himself about his reality and for his mother, he has to create an environment preserved just like it was before the accident of Christiane, because she is in bed when the wall fall down, and she doesn´t know nothing about political changes.  

Well, I like this movie because it suggest an event for reflections about the individual life before, during and after the “greats” changes in political and social issues, and otherwise, it presents (from fiction) a way to think that big processes like an absurd sometimes into the movie, so daily life doesn´t have those rhythms.

On violence

Well, today I have to talk about something I care about or find interesting or like a lot… I’m thinking about the violence’s “root” into the human being. I was thinking that people are something very strange, I mean in the speech of humanity we aspire to kindness, trying to throw out the wickedness of the society, but it goes for us over and over through the years. We can see the effects of “violence” every hour of our life, but what kind of violence?

That question is interesting because it brings us to think in the author and the sense of violence for him, from the idea of an action made by someone for something, it motivated by a personality inside his mind… If we just see the problem in that way, we are focusing individually, that is, we are thinking violence as a product of individual wish, forgetting the social part of the problem, about the historical conditions of daily life, the dynamics between the subject and the group, and the power positions related to the government of societies.

I’m trying to ask about the possibility to think the violence not only in individual terms, depending on a wish emerging from the inside of the mind, because I believe that psychological issues are mechanisms which were constructed as an answer of environmental requirements, a way to process the relationship with other person different to me.

Maybe the idea of good/bad is useless to think about the root of violence, it could be like this because they are opinions of the consequences of violent acts, but they say nothing of why it happens in a specific time and how is the relation between the author and the social context.

To sum up, in this moment it is a main issue for me think about when, how and why we can use or not the violence as a resource into the conflict before powerful ones, and in which dimension and context we can evaluate the limit of violence between “use and abuse”.

“Instincts and their vicissitudes”, 1915

Well, today I have to talk about something that I’m reading at the moment, and right now I’m so busy studying Freudian theory, among his books I’m reading “Instincts and their vicissitudes” (Pulsión y destinos de pulsión), written in 1915 meanwhile the number of Freud’s patients decrease because the war made them go out to the country avoiding or taking part of the fight.

It is part of Meta-psychological works that Freud write into the “psychoanalysis movement” trying to put some things into a theoretical order after Dream’s interpretation. 

The gender of this text is “scientific”, but I believe that is a fundamental text for clinical psychologist in general, even if some of them don’t include their professional practice into “scientist” terms. Basically, “Instincts and their vicissitudes” talks about conceptual definitions of “instincts”, the types of it, how it works in our psyche and how instincts progress along of somebody’s life.

It’s a hard word to clear the unconcluded stuffs that he worked since 1892 until 1915. I don’t know if I’m really enjoying this text xD, sometimes, when I see patients whit my teachers, I remember that text (and other) and I realize that Freud was thinking very similar things like I see of the patients in the present. I believe this text is very useful to work and think about how I’m working.

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I good friend of me is Tania, a classmate of psychology, but she is in fourth grade and she’ll go soon :”””(  ... I don’t know how soon, because the thesis take a long time, thus like the professional practice...

I met her in Bachillerato in 2010, but we didn’t talk to each other there, we have to get in our careers separately, until 2013 when we begin to chat From that time we work together in projects to change de world xD

We have in common a lot of things, specially being bitter girls! xD that is having common opinions in political and academic issues... also, we spend much time thinking about the world, the life, our lives and our work. I think that a friendship like this is only possible because we are so quiet, but at the same restless persons. We hate stand into crowds, we feel so weird between so much people we don’t know (and likely we’ll never know D: )

Now, I see her a few hours in FACSo  ;-;  maybe the next year we can share more time together, she has research and political projects to accomplish always, sometimes we ride up the San Cristobal hill on bicycle, and I’m so happy when it happens, I feel healthy and calm going up, and so excited going down the hill. After that, we eat something and go home <3

Task for FRIDAY 26

It’s a difficult task for me define ONE person. But I think that the greatest Chilean of all the times is (for me) my aunt… yes, my aunt. She is a special person and I think we have few persons like her in this world, all the people doesn’t have to share this opinion with me, but I even believe that “Chile” is a fiction, thus in my small world, the social places I live every daily life, my greatest Chilean of all the times is she.

I’ve always seen her conviction in the form of organize her own conflicts, along her biography I can see over and over a way to live the life at the limit, like the last one and with the same passion.

She is the second of five children (now they are all adults), so she early takes the place of my grandmother when she went to work, and made it so good, my uncles and aunts remember that childhood like a moment not so bad. When she was young, she gets into JJ.CC. in Pudahuel, and constructs an important  part of the political movement of that town… I remember, in a part of my childhood, crowds walking along “La Estrella” avenue accompany a red bus with Gladys Marin up to it xD but the important thing was the situation after that, when we go home at night and eat roast beef in home.

Well, it’s a difficult task sum up the staffs I really love of her, and make me proud to be her niece, but when she got off the JJ.CC., she’s continued fight to the injustice and impunity, until now, sometimes I don’t share her behavior, in other moments I thanks her conviction… I don’t know if I have a finished question for her yet… maybe in the future I’ll be able to understand a lot of thing of my family, my history, and her  

"Fiestas Patrias"

Well, I normally celebrate “National Holiday” at home, with my family. We cook “empanadas” and  “roast beef”. Empanadas is filled of cheese or chicken or beef o vegetables. My sister doesn’t eat any kind of beef, is because of that we have to cook special food, thinking about her. Honestly, sometimes is very boring cooking apart, but we love her  and we do our best!

So, we normally stay at home, cooking, and then watch TV or a movie… last year we did exactly the same things… maybe some people will think that it is very boring, and it could be like this, however, personally, I live every family moment like the last moment, I don’t know why, but I just live my daily life believing in that important things are in every part of my path.

The best Fiestas Patrias that I remember: none, I live it like every day, I just highlight the free time gotten in my  holiday, I can go to the “Cerro” in my bike every day in anytime of the day, I can sleep and do nothing xD and I can read things that I really love :3

Typical activities?, :/ I don’t practice them, but sometimes I fly kites, I love to see them up in the sky  nice outdoor activity… about rayuela specifically… I think it is entertaining :P, but I’ve never tried to throw a “tejo”, and about "rodeo"  poor cows ;_;

But I have a claim (and at the same time it makes me sad): time is always very short