Violenza di genere, violenza simbolica e psicoanalisi

Abstract

The gender perspective is also necessary in psychotherapeutic treatments. Too often psychoanalysis remains in a “neutral” area. Even Jungian therapist seldom adopt the gender perspective, in spite of the many suggestions given by Jung himself which could offer a powerful stimulus for new and fruitful developments. The process of individuation, which is the goal of analytical therapy, actually aims to free the individual from their conscious or unconscious conditionings due to the adherence to the stereotypes induced by the socio cultural context and by the collective. In the case of women, we cannot speak of a therapeutic process meant to build up subjectivity if we do not critically analyse those collective values that for centuries have defined the parameters of an appropriate female identity. A clinical case shows the possibility of a therapeutic solution that takes into account the problem of the lack of female subjectivity. Il is in this field that the author has carried on her theoretical research for many years.