Single-minded thinking, binary thinking and the third in hypermodern society

Taking his cue from the lyrics of a songwriter and the work of a novelist, the author analyses the most frequent forms of thought in hypermodern society: binary thought, based on a schizo-paranoid logic, and monodic thought. The first forces the subject to choose between two alternative options, apparently opposite but which in fact legitimize each other, excluding any third option. The second is the psychic reflection of Lacan's "capitalist discourse" and closes the subject in a spiral of jouissance that finds no way out and that opposes desire. These are two modes of thought that flatten the mind, boycott the mentalization, crystallize the intrapsychic and interpersonal field and, on the political level, empty democracy of its authentic meaning.