ABSTRACT
In this text, we try to apply the phenomenological method to the problem of political violence, and in particular to the emergence of “terror apparatuses” such as totalitarian movements or current terrorism. Indeed, we think that phenomenology, reoriented as an ego-phenomenology or “ego-analysis”, allows us to understand the genesis of the affect of hate. After having described, according to Husserl’s Cartesian way, the process of constitution of the ego-flesh and of the alter ego, we approach then the level of intersubjective communities by analysing the formation of “Political Bodies”, their crises and the phantasms of intrusion and dislocation that accompany them. We examine then the consequences of democratic dynamics, understood as a process of disembodiment of collective bodies. We show that this disincorporation causes intense anxiety and favours the emergence of a counter-trend that seeks to rebuild the Political Body, to reincorporate the society. It is this tendency that gives birth to the terror apparatuses that have accompanied since its beginning the rise of modern democracy.
