1 WE HAVE A BELOVED ENEMY: ABOUT THE REDS AND GREEN- YELLOWS (OR BLUES) IN BRAZILIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS 1 Karla Rampim Xavier 2 Patrícia P. Ferreira-Lemos 3 The proposal of this work is to bring out some ideas that we have been studying and talking about since the recent movements that happened in Brazil, in 2011, and in other places of the world since then, but especially, those movements starting in June, 2013, in Brazil. There are some Brazilian academics and activists writing about this and we want to contribute with our 2 cents. In our opinion, the big act which suscitated what we comprehend as political-party binarism in the actual context of the Brazilian democracy could be localized in the second moment of the movements of June 2013, when the streets and squares in different Brazilian cities were occupied by a kind of ‘affective contagion’ by thousands of Brazilians. But, we like to affirm that the binarism we will talk about, was not something that was simply triggered by that particular moment of Brazil's political situation. Binarism, as we will try to bring to light, is a necessary condition when we think in terms of identification. In that moment of Brazil, what happened was a manifestation of the polarization, and people felt that they could occupy the cities and shout their dissatisfactions. As we could apprehend in the others movements around the world, there were many topics surrounding them: housing, education, health, urban mobility, right to the city, and so on. We also could think that there was a desire to retake the city. Moreover, in capitalism, the subject was constantly 1 This paper results from a talk given in GCAS "Democracy Rising" Conference (Athens, Greece, 2015). 2 Psychologist and Psychoanalyst. MA in Social Psychology at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil. Works with public policy currently in the Secretariat of Culture of Santo André’s hall (SP, Brazil). Current research focuses on the following topics: psychoanalytic clinic with lacanian orientation, social symptom, politics, Marx and discontents. 3 PhD in Social Psychology at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil. Researcher at the Psychoanalytic and Society Center at PUC- SP. Research field covers psychoanalysis in extension, especially the theories of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, and the following topics: society, subject, theory of discourses, discontents and social ties.