Violences conjugales, violences théoriques la psychanalyse à l'épreuve du genre

Abstract

This article aims to examine certain psychoanalytical theories of domestic violence, confronting them to a clinical experience with abused women in suburban Sao Paulo. This perspective relies on a correspondence between the psyche and the social context. Research, clinical experience and theory are narrowly linked in psychoanalysis, which, more than a mere theory, proves to be a method applied to an objet, the Unconscious, made positive only through the psychoanalytical research and technique. This article purports to analyse how a psychoanalytical theory of domestic violence could account for the specific social-historic dimension of this phenomenon. Some psychoanalytical interpretations literalize or imaginarize Freudien and Lacanien texts, through notions of essentialized feminine masochism or a reductive reading of the phallus. Domestic violence against women questions in a new way the historicity of theory, its social, cultural and political definitions. These are issues along which Gender Theory addresses psychoanalysis. Taking into account the clinical and historical signification of domestic violence may help avoiding that frozen an-historical metapsychology become a paradoxical resistance against psychoanalysis. © ERES. Tous droits réservés pour tous pays.