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Revista Mal Estar e Subjetividade

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BITTENCOURT, João Batista de Menezes. The hell are the others: an analysis of the fear of strange in the city of Fortaleza (CE). Rev. Mal-Estar Subj. [online]. 2009, vol.9, n.1, pp. 161-185. ISSN 1518-6148.

This article discusses the problem of fear in the present days and its relationship with the "feeling of strangeness" that is present in humans. The empirical references are constituted by the experiences of the residents of a middle class neighborhood in Fortaleza city, Ceará, Brazil. It's assumed that individuals who inhabit the so-called "spaces of fear" - areas with desert-like aspects, remote from urban areas and with a strong security apparatus - had a more intense "fear of the stranger". The fear is always afraid of the stranger and, depending on the context, it can take many strange faces. That indecipherable and faceless being, in some situations, receive color, residence, age, so that is possible to ease our everyday neuroses. From interviews with their residents, I propose to examine the social imaginary significations present in their discourse, which define their representations about themselves and about the strangers who they bump into in those areas, thus becoming a potential suspect. Although many studies suggest the increase in urban violence as the main socio intensifier of segregation in major capitals of the country, we believe there are more complex factors defining our interest to keep away those who "feel unwanted". Therefore, I seek in Psychoanalysis one of the keys to understand the urban segregation phenomenon.

Keywords : fear; subjectivity; strangeness; psychoanalysis; segregation.

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