| Summary: | According to Claude Lefort (1981), totalitarianism is characterized by its double "closure," as it destroys the social space and abolishes plurality of opinions. In this view, totalitarian discourse can be seen as a kind of domination discourse that, independently of its origins, tends to superimpose the whole of the social dialogue, while excluding all ideas that are different from its own. In accordance with the hypothesis that certain values attract certain kind of emotions, this article attempts to demonstrate that negative pathos, together with the range of its linguistic instruments, can be considered an inherent feature of totalitarian discourse.
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