A estética do traumático: atenção a sujeitos em situação de violência e reações profissionais

Abstract

This research approaches the specificity for the attention to subjects in situations of violence linking the fields of violence, human rights, psychoanalysis and aesthetics, in which the axial theory is psychoanalysis. It is based on the hypothesis that violence has its own aesthetics and can provoke different reactions in the professionals who deal with these subjects according to the subjectivity of each of such professionals. The objective is to identify sensory, perceptive, affective and imaginary elements that can stand out in the intersubjective relationship between subject in extreme situation of violence and the professional who is assisting. The study was carried out from clinical cases of subjects that, entangled in multiple violence, were received and attended in different institutional contexts, together with semi-structured interviews granted by sixteen professionals from four referral services of care for subjects in situations of violence in two Brazilian states, Pará and São Paulo. It asserts that violence comprises aesthetic elements related to the categories of ugliness, the disturbing strange or the uncanny, horror, terror, grotesque and sublime as well as the most common reactions of professionals facing these elements