@article{ref1,
title="Gender violence and shame. The visible and the invisible, from the clinical to the social systems",
journal="Camera blu, la. Rivista di studi di genere",
year="2014",
author="Margherita, Giorgia and Troisi, Gina",
volume="1",
number="10",
pages="e2586-e2586",
abstract="The traumatic experience of violence is, in its nature, unspeakable. It causes  in the victim a deep wound in identity, changes in the dynamics of psychic  investments producing a failure of the ability to symbolize, thus breaking  the rules that characterize the usual development of thought. Some  affections related to the body prevail, above all the shame which expresses  itself in characteristics which reinforce the element of trauma. The loss of a  capacity to represent and symbolize is not only a psychic dynamic, but it  also reproduces itself in the social systems, shaping that zone of &quot;silent  concealment&quot;, that drives the phenomenon of gender violence. The  psychoanalytical reflection on the relationship between guilt and shame  seems to be a priority in dealing with and at the same time highlighting the  risk of  victim blaming  intended in terms of the unconscious defensive  dynamics expressed by the social systems. We will consider the importance  in the therapeutic intervention of the work of reconstruction and  historicization, to be able to reactivate representation which allows the  integration and the chance to distinguish the imaginary plane of the  traumatic event from the real one. The psychoanalytical approach to the  groups provides an interpretative model to articulate the psychic and the  social space.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1827-9198",
doi="10.6092/1827-9198/2586",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.6092/1827-9198/2586"
}