Abstract

CARVALHO, Jhéssyca Dias de  and  SILVA, Luan Sampaio. The silence of torturers: neutrality and psychic violence. Estud. psicanal. [online]. 2022, n.57, pp.107-116.  Epub Feb 14, 2025. ISSN 0100-3437.  https://doi.org/10.5935/2175-3482.n57a10.

This article appears with the intention of remembering a painful moment in the country’s history in which the use of violence, in its various forms, functioned as one of the main means of dealing with difference and/or those who are different. Remembering this history is a way of resisting what insistently returns in other periods, if one does not have the opportunity to elaborate its content. Through research in psychoanalysis, which encompasses historical exploration, it is intended to problematize the psychoanalytic concept of neutrality and the repercussions on the use that some psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic institutions made of this nomenclature to perpetuate and legitimize psychic suffering in the period of the dictatorial regime in Brazil and in the years that followed. The positions taken by them were linked to attempts to mask the true face of the psychic violence that took place in the basements of the dictatorship and that was supported by a distorted vision of the concept of neutrality.

Keywords : Neutrality; Psychoanalysis; Dictatorship; Violence.

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