Violence as an effect of crystallization of omnipotence fantasy

• Autor(es):

  Guerra, Alba Gomes (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Docente e Pesquisadora do Departamento de Psicologia da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. IPsicanalista, Doutora em Psicologia);

  Carvalho, Glória (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Docente e Pesquisadora do Departamento de Psicologia. IIDoutora em Lingüística pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas).

• Fonte:

  Psicologia em Estudo; volume 9, número 1, páginas 103-110. Abril 2004.

• Assuntos:

  violence;

  desire;

  law.

• Resumo:

  Taking up some fragments of a criminal story as illustration, the theme of violence is herein brought into discussion, within a theoretical reference grounded on Lacanian ideas. Desire and Law confrontation is then highly emphasized depicted from the paternal/symbolic function as an interdicting element of omnipotence fantasy. The effects of omnipotence of such fantasy in its law-breaking character are taken as illusion crystallization of omnipotence in both subject/investigator and subject/investigated. Following that path, it was sought to highlight the ranking of subjectivity in the interpretative process.

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