Abstract

HARRIS, Adrienne. Intimacy: the tank in the bedroom.Translated byImyra Bardelotti. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2017, vol.51, n.3, pp. 151-166. ISSN 0486-641X.

This essay considers intimacy as it arises in early development and attachment, and as it is part of how identities, gender and sexuality are regulated over the course of development. In the final section, intimacy as an integral part of social violence is explored in circumstances of racism and state-initiated violence through torture. What ties these aspects of intimacy and intimate life together is a commitment to a psychoanalytic approach that considered the intrapsychic and the intersubjective as powerfully and closely interacting. Intimacy is both highly personal and private and deeply imbued with social and political forces. This consideration of intimacy, as it is deeply individual and at the same time regulated and constituted by the state and the culture and the family, appears in various political formations, totalitarian, neo liberal and democratic.

Keywords : intimacy; attachment; enigmatic; regulation; social violence; torture; sexuality; gender; translation; nomadic concepts; shame; interpellation.

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