Abstract

PAIM FILHO, Ignácio Alves  and  QUADROS, Valéria. The war and the disavowal of the feminine: Trojan’s paradigm. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2008, vol.42, n.4, pp. 99-109. ISSN 0486-641X.

The article discusses the reasons of war through the reading and confronting of Homer’s Iliad and Freud’s conception of the disavowal of the feminine (1937). The authors postulate the existence of an originary feminine disposition bounded to the origins of the psychic subject. They also describe the fate of the feminine in the psychic: to be repressed in a first moment by the action of primary repression, and in a second moment, to be disavowed by the advent of the secondary repression. The war, as the authors intend to demonstrate, is a dramatization of the feminine’s disavowal.

Keywords : Disavowal; Feminine; War; Repression.

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