ABSTRACT
The propaganda that preaches the idea of unique identity is fuelled by the conditions in which many individuals live, conforming and submitting to the appointed authority. Many complex societies have been unable to respond to human problems, which are sacrificed on the altar of conformism or competition. The utopia of a unique identity makes conflict between peoples inevitable. The “globalized” world involves a contest between two different types of idealization: on the one hand, the Western lifestyle, which is democratic and technocratic; and, on the other, that of Islam, which seeks to maintain tradition and hierarchy against the paganism of globalized modernity. The idealization that leads to the notion of unique identity uses a propaganda of falsification that corrupts the truth. H. A. Rosenfeld and D. Meltzer suggest that the origins of severe psychopathologies lie in a mental structure which, through seductive propaganda, overcomes and colonizes the healthy parts of the personality and compels them to espouse destructiveness.
