Educarea Prin Teroare: Fenomenul Piteşti Şi Aglaja Veteranyi

„The education must inhibit, forbid and repress, which has been doing ever since. But psycho-analysis has taught us that repressing one‟s impulses creates the danger of neurotic sickness. Education must therefore make its way through the Scylla of tolerance and the Charybda of frustration.‟ This theory which was taken over from the father of psycho-analysis, Sigmund Freud, gives us the right to admit that education, as a hole of measures applied constantly for the formation and development of intellectual, moral or physic qualities of a man, is in fact a dangerous procedure. In this study we analise the problems of education through the means of terror, based on two exponential cases: the Pitesti Phenomenon and the writer Aglaja Veteranyi. The Pitesti experiment took place in the late „40s – early ‟50 in a prison where political oposants of the communist regime were taken and rehabilitated in order for them to become great supporters of it. Re-education was enforced by beatings, severe torture, so that the victims lose all moral, family and religious values. On the other hand, we have also another type of re-education- that of the common citizen- based on a profund terror and torture at a psychical level. Freedom was just an illusion, thus we can discuss about a „box of glass‟. What can be observed until this day are the incredible consequential effects of the both types of re-education. The generations that had to endure it is still present time suffering from negative consequences.