Our daily enemy: A dialogue between psychoanalysis and law

Abstract

Our daily enemy: a dialogue between psychoanalysis and law. This paper establishes a dialogue between psychoanalysis and law, taking as subject Freudian theories about segregation, characterized by the aggression directed to the neighbor, and also, the relations between law and violence, aiming to articulate them with the criminal law of the enemy's doctrine, formalized by the German jurist Gunther Jakobs. In order to address this theme and show its relevance, the authors discuss the police mega-operations recently carried out in the slums of Rio de Janeiro. Testimonies collected from data research allow us to state that this practice has been revealing itself not just segregational, but frankly intolerant and criminalising of poverty.