The Real of Violence: Experience Report with a Women's Collective

Abstract

This work aims, through the experience and testimony of a Women's Collective, to propose a reading of what we call the Real of violence through the teaching of Lacan and commentators. Different from the Real as a foundation that is absent or lack-of-being, the Real of violence is historically inserted in the daily life and in the life of certain Brazilian bodies, precisely black, female and peripheral bodies. In view of the scenario of socio-political impasses in Brazil, but also of powerful voices and actions that have emerged from communities crossed by structures of violence, the Collective's experience illustrates the present work, in order to demonstrate possible paths for a know-how to deal with this Real to which their children and the community are more exposed. In the light of concepts from Feminist Theory, such as, for example, the notion of intersectionality and the body-territory category, we endorse this discussion that demands Psychoanalysis to converse with other fields of knowledge. An undertaking that demands ethical and political engagement from psychoanalysts, especially those who practice analytical praxis in Brazil.