Abstract

GOMEZ, Maria Mercedes. Violence, Homophobia and Psychoanalysis: Between Secrecy and Openness. rev.estud.soc. [online]. 2007, n.28, pp.72-85. ISSN 0123-885X.

Through the psychoanalytical concepts of "symptom" and "repression," this article looks at expressions of sexual prejudicebased violence in societies where heterosexuality is institutionalized and compulsory. With these concepts, it examines the tensions that exist between the prohibition of homosexual practices, the concomitant desire for the prohibited, and the violence with which this desire and its effects are normalized. The article begins with a legal example to show how practices of subordination in terms of nonnormative sexualities are tolerated and maintained as sources of private pleasure, but how they become objects of exclusionary violence when the pleasure of the prohibited is made public. The text explores the vicissitudes of this transition from a psychoanalytical and political perspective.

Keywords : Compulsory heterosexuality; psychoanalysis; prejudicebased violence; discrimination; exclusion; gender and sexuality.

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