Four-Monthly European Review of Psychoanalysis and Social Science
Editor in Chief: David Meghnagi (University of Rome Tre)
Co-Editor: Claudia Gina Hassan (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Europa ricerca (Europe and Research)
ISSN 2282-0043 · Iscr. Tribunale di Roma n. 305/2012 dell’8 novembre 2012
From Pasolini’s Salò to Boko Haram: On the Pedophilic Mentality in Social Perversity
Authors
Cosimo Schinaia
Psychiatrist, Training and Supervisor Analyst of the Società Psicoanalitica Italiana (SPI) and Member of the
International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA)
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Social perversity, Boko Haram.
Abstract
In his 1975 movie Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, Pier Paolo Pasolini seems to refer to the corruption ofthose who once had been the meta-social guarantors and of their meta-psychical reference points (René Kaës [2005]called these reference points “metapsychic guarantors”). This corruption can be found in the shift from authority toauthoritarianism and from the object of desire to the perversion objectless. In Boko Haram mentality we have a similarprocess: the little girls raped soon become slave wives and the little boys are quickly transformed from sexual objects toviolent automata (I mean, child soldiers).
