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This paper proposes a short reflection on the issue of the European power elite, starting from the ongoing debate about the problem of democratic deficit in the European Union and the crucial question of "who really rules Europe". The recent literature on this issue shows the coexistence of different approach to this matter, generally mostly focused on specific aspects more then on its widest context. A first group of studies is focused on the analysis of European political elite, a second group deepened the analysis of the European governance from the perspective of policy networks, a third group examines the lobbying activity of interest groups in the multi-level European governance structure, a fourth group focuses on the rise of a European corporate elites. Two perspectives of study approaches the issue of European elites from a more integrated and systemic perspective. The first is based on the model of transnational power elites and the second is focused on the monetary power complex.

This paper proposes a first elaboration of a specific approach to the study of the financial crisis from a psychosocial perspective that combines two theoretical models that share a common view of reality conceived as a social and symbolic construction: the social constructionism and the psychoanalytic perspective developed on the basis of the Matte Blanco's theory bi-logic theory of mind and the construct of affective symbolizations. Following the theory of mass media as agents of social and cultural change and focusing on the role played by the media in fostering interpretative patterns – and thus the symbolic shared costruction - of the global economic and financial, this reflection brings to the proposal of investigating the sociocultural construction of such phenomena through a specific methodology of discourse analysis, the emotional text analysis elaborated by Carli and Paniccia, which allows to identify the unconscious symbolization of social events and phenomena, such as the financial crisis, with the purpose of identifying more effective strategies of intervention for the socioeconomic, political and cultural development of social living.

This text offers food for thought about the psychosocial dimensions of power and their implications in the genesis and maintenance of a social order such as the current one, characterized by a profound crisis of civilization, in order to help identify adequate strategies to achieve a better understanding of the intertwining of unconscious and social dynamics that determine its current configuration and identify possible lines of development that allow it to lead to forms of configuration more consistent with the possibility of a cultural and spiritual development, peaceful and harmonious, of all kinds human. This reflection develops starting from the comparison between the two declinations of power over and power of, in relation to the relational dynamics of power (of the elite) with the other from oneself, according to the configurations of the latter as enemy or known friend, or - in a more productive way and according to a logic of reciprocity - according to that of the unknown friend, to be known, precisely - in a non-definable way - through a productively common doing, on the basis of the model of social coexistence proposed by Renzo Carli.