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Vol. 43 No. 2 (2023)
Revista Portuguesa de Psicanálise

Fundamentos

A dinâmica inflamada da violência quotidiana: o contexto indiano

https://doi.org/10.51356/rpp.432a2

Published 2023-12-31

  • Jhuma Basak

Jhuma Basak
Indian Psychoanalytical Society

Abstract

The dynamics of a passionate-violence in everyday living: an Indian context

The author claims that the contemporary social dynamics in India is based on a pathological splitting between good and bad, right and wrong, “us” and “the others”. In this context, empathy for the other’s suffering disappears and indifference is socially permitted, as a survival defense mechanism. Women are particularly stricken, being seen as “the disavowed other”, in a pathological splitting between the ideal mother goddess and the humiliated flesh and blood woman. Thus, violence against women is a worrying feature of today’s social atmosphere in India. Two clinical vignettes are described to illustrate this problem and its consequences on women's psyche.

Keywords

splitting, disociation, anihilation, survival, intolerance to the feminine, repudiation of femininity

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Author Biography

Jhuma Basak

Psicanalista Didata da Indian Psychoanalytical Society e membro da Associação Psicanalítica Internacional. É doutorada em Psicologia pela Kyushu University, em Fukuoka (Japão). É consultora do COWAP (Comité Mulheres e Psicanálise) para a região da Ásia-Pacífico.

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