Câmara, MariaFernandes, Diêgo2024-02-182024(Câmara & Fernandes, 2024) Câmara, M., & Fernandes, D. A. (2024). O discurso neoliberal e as fake news, uma questão do Outro(?): uma leitura psicanalítica sobre o (des)laço social contemporâneo. Em R. F. Brito, & C. E. Vieira, [orgs) Leitura(s) de fake news (pp. 197-223). Catu, BA, Brasil : Bordô Grená.978-65-80422-40-1https://deposita.ibict.br/handle/deposita/500In 2016, the Oxford Dictionary named “post-truth” as the word of the year. Since then, the political and social panorama has been marked for this post-truth situation, where objective and rational belief loses weight in the face of political and ideological appeal. In the midst of this scenario, false news (fake news) spreads. Mechanisms used in the elections of neoliberal extremist leaders, as in the case of the Unidos 2016 and Brasil 2018. The rise of neoliberalism, in the choice of extreme leaders right, has been associated with media manipulation of public opinion through fake news practices. The expansion of fake news marks the post-truth era, where universal truths are abandoned. This corresponds, in psychoanalysis, to what Lacan (1968-69/2008) mentions in the aphorism “evaporation of the father”, that is, the decline of the great Other, which results in the decay of the transmission of Truth and reveals the segregation as a brand. The big Other, as a function, produces social change of the symbolic order. For Lacan (1968-69/2008), on the contrary thinks that the communication of our civilization homogenizes relationships, What characterizes our century is the ramified segregation, which produces a multiplication of social barriers. Lacan (1969/1970/1972) locates the disappearance of this Other from the ascension and predominance of capitalist discourse in current society. It is through notion of the discourses that Lacan (1969/1970/1972) will approach as This, the capitalist discourse, does not provide a proper function of discourse that is that of the social bond. Starting from the capitalist discourse presented by Lacan, we will introduce the idea of ​​its validity in its most advanced state, that is, in the form of neoliberal discourse. This speech was led by market logic and that produces in the subject, a form of eradication of alterity, an individualism, a feedback of truths “proper” to each person and their inner self. Given this scenario, we question: How do notions of capitalist discourse and the Other in Lacan can contribute to the understanding the effects that neoliberalism intertwined with campaigns of fake news has had on subjects in contemporary Brazil?application/pdfopenAccessOutroDiscurso neoliberalFake news(Des)laço socialCiências HumanasCiências sociaisCiências políticasCapítulo de livro