Attack on freedom: book censorship in Buenos Aires exposes power game!

Attack on freedom: book censorship in Buenos Aires exposes power game!

Buenos Aires, Argentinien - A disturbing attack on the freedom of literature has shaken the educational landscape in the province of Buenos Aires! Politicians have targeted a number of books that circulate in schools and try to discredit them by defamation and defamation. These repressive efforts show a worrying tendency towards totalitarian views that threaten the variety of fiction and the associated truth. Jacques Lacan called this state of "varity" - a term that describes the complexity of the truth in the literature.

The idea that written words could cause a measurable change in the reader arouses both fear and longing. Some dreamer hope to influence the readership through controlled texts, while at the same time pulling works out of circulation that slipped from their control. But reading is much more than a passive absorption of content! It is an active process that pluralizes the meaning and creates space for individual interpretations. Ricardo Piglia sums it up: "A reader is also the one who is poorly read, distorted and confused."

The power of reading

Reading can cause a subjective transformation that does not end in an "indoctrinations" scheme, but opens the way for personal decisions. Each text appeals to the reader in its own way, and the uncertainty of the interpretation enables a variety of readings. José Saramago describes it poetically: "Everyone invents their own way to read." History teaches us that totalitarian regime burn books because they see a threat in reading. The censor strives for a uniform language that does not allow any deviations and would like to anticipate the interpretations.

Psychoanalysis requires freedom of the word, because this is the only way to gain the analysisand distance to the stressful repetitions. Due to a different type of reading, the reader can discover the complexity and contradictions of the texts. Reading is thus an answer to the discomfort by giving it the opportunity to gain new perspectives and create their own meanings. In this regard, reading is not just an act of reception, but a creative examination of what was written.