Abstract

FRANCA, Cassandra Pereira. On the edge: looking for representations for what has no explanation and never will. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2020, vol.54, n.1, pp. 69-81. ISSN 0486-641X.

The phenomenon of the brutal explosion of violence opens up the depth of the crisis of the ethical assumptions in our culture. This is the theme of this article and that moves the pendulum between reflections about the death drive and trauma in everyday life (moved by constant fright/stupor before indifference and sadism present in perverse relationships that convert the other into an object of use submission and shame/ humiliation). In order to follow erosion procedures that erode subjectivity nowadays, one must follow the theoretical paths intertwined in the articles Beyond the pleasure principle (1920) and The malaise in culture (1930) where the death drive presents itself as pure power of destruction. This is an invitation for psychoanalysts, as care agents that have a powerful theoretical/technical instrument, to find a collective response to the conditions of production of the traumatic in our time.

Keywords : death drive; trauma; traumatogenesis; everyday violence; perversion.

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