La música electrónica como sublimación de la pulsión en las toxicomanías : análisis de la vida de Gustavo Cerati.

Abstract

Contemporary culture establishes an intimate connection between electronic music and the excessive consumption of drugs. However, there is another pole that links electronic music with sublimation as understood in psychoanalysis. Also, there is an association demonstrated with the capitalist discourse proposed by Jacques Lacan, something that drives the deadly pursuit, beyond the pleasure principle proposed by Sigmund Freud. This work aims to explore the reasons why an individual would decide to belong to either of the facets offered by electronic music, thus investigating the differences between the enjoyment communities of the after-parties and the social bonds formed through the pursuit of new techniques for creating aesthetic beauty. Through the biographical case study of Gustavo Cerati's life, this research allows the identification of specific subjective coordinates when contrasting the multiple options of impulse destination. The analysis of these historical events reveals moments when they approach or distance themselves from the Freudian reality principle, symbolically sublimating in artworks, or indulging autistically in drugs.