Abstract

SANTOS, Tania Coelho dos  and  TEIXEIRA, Maria Angélia. Violence in psychoanalytical theory: rupture or a kind of social bonds?. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2006, vol.12, n.20, pp. 165-180. ISSN 1677-1168.

Is there a psychoanalytical theory of violence? Can the concept of death drive explain the increasing violence of modern social life? In the perspective of Lacan’s discourse theory, is violence a symptom or a rupture of social bonds? Should the growth of this phenomenon be analyzed considering the effects of object A as the ideal of our civilization, or considering the effects of abolishing the Real as something impossible according to the discourse of capitalism? Are those hypotheses mutually excludent or should we articulate them to each other? This study highlights subjective effects of the separation between the elements at stake in the discourse structure as the true cause of contemporary phenomena such as violence.

Keywords : Violence; Symptom; Break of the social bond; Discourse of capitalism.

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