The roots of violence in Brazil: Impasses and possibilities
| Autor: | Eliana Rodrigues Pereira Mendes |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Economic disparity
Government Psychoanalysis Corruption business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Identity (social science) Gender studies Cognitive reframing Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology State (polity) Agriculture Nepotism Political economy Sociology business media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Forum of Psychoanalysis. 28:34-39 |
| ISSN: | 1651-2324 0803-706X |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0803706x.2017.1333144 |
| Popis: | Nowadays, violence appears in various forms in Brazil. From an agricultural country, Brazil became rapidly industrialized, which resulted in large rural exodus and explosion of population density in major cities. Brazil faces today a great social and economic disparity, added to endemic corruption of government, nepotism and lack of social planning. The roots of such violence can be found in our archaic heritage that has been forming Brazilian identity since its early days. The interest of former colonizers was to extract wealth, without regarding the establishment of a nation. This exploitation has been always done by force and violence, with the slave labor of native Indians and imported black people. As a state Brazil was exposed to the primal father’s law, and to the absence of a symbolic father, who could have provided his people with a more stable identity, only given by the paternal law. Is it possible to reframe archaic heritage, rebuilding the missing father image without resorting to a f... |
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