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Violence is one of the most discussed and relevant topics in the current world scenario. present study results from a research on self-inflicted violence in the clinical and institutional context. Self-inflicted violence is subdivided by the WHO into two categories, one of which is self-harm. Within the framework of self-injury, we chose to work with self-mutilation because it is one of the most recurrent types in the clinical and institutional contexts.The main objective of this study is to investigate and analyze, from a psychoanalysis standpoint, how the superego dynamics may be intertwined in relation to the emergence of cases of self-inflicted violence. In order to carry out this investigation, psychoanalytical research was used as methodology, in which clinical experience and institutional research, guided by psychoanalysis, served to broaden the analytical experience and the very experience of psychoanalysis knowledge. Initially, an introduction to the primordial concepts of research is established, such as the issue of self- inflicted violence, the concept of the body from psychoanalysis and sociology, and two notions of superego – not only Freud's, but also a more contemporary and specific, the archaic superego –, seeking to establish a construction between both and the conception of fantasy for the constitution of the subject. In the second chapter, there is a discussion based on two case studies. The first is the result of semi-structured clinical interviews conducted at a psychosocial care institution in the city of Fortaleza; the second is built from vignettes of the researcher's own clinical experience. The results show a connection between the social construction of the body and the constitutive formation of the subject in relation to contemporary practices of self-inflicted violence, pointing to a possibility in the change of the psychic dynamics of the contemporary subject in relation to the Freudian subject and its consequences in the clinic, which no longer appears only as the symptom clinic, but also as the act clinic. Keywords: Superego, Body; Violence; Self-mutilation; Psychoanalysis. |
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