Abstract presented at the S4 AFFECTIVE SPACES OF OPACITY

Co-author: Federica Sollecito

The recent dissolution of Macron's government following the EU elections

creates an opportunity for the far-right French ideology to root in power, further unsettling

Europe, which is currently navigating a complex political landscape. The lingua-politics

are cruising the oppression materialised in Neo-Nazi parties in Germany, the tyranny over

women's bodies in Poland and Hungary's imprisonment of Salis. Despite this Italian

antifascist voice, Italy still elected Meloni as its president; in the years leading up to her

election, Meloni developed a language to communicate with her supporters. Right-wing

political battles were and are fought not just with words but for words themselves: the

will to restrict the use of words, to foster otherness, to defend conservative Italian values

— the status quo. In this paper, we analyse the strong opposition we have observed when

the Italian cultural individual is confronted with the semantic changes that the alienated

other claims to build its own identity and be included. We propose a psychoanalytic

approach to clear up the opaque words of the propaganda; coextended within it, a

linguistic analysis to reveal how the semantic hostilities and etymological nuances have

been mistakenly overlooked in the contemporary critique of the Fascist regimes' ascent

in Europe. A pivotal instance in the discourse of oppression, as in the right-wing

indoctrination language is understood and used to determine the unconscious and the

formation of identity. The capability to turn immaterial objects into a crisis of values

inevitably leads to adopting an ultra-conservative weltanschauung — a psycho-lingo-

political impasse.

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