Os bombeiros da alma! O que resta da demanda no âmbito da instituição carcerária

Abstract

The firefighters of the soul: what is left of demand in face of demands of the penal institution. This article takes the question of demand - according to the Psychoanalytic approach - within the context of a penal institution in France. The difficulty to locate the listening place of the subject, in this case the inmate, is related not only to the conflicts of the institutional work, but also to the injunctive nature of the social context and its demand of reparation. This paper observes an incompatibility between Psychoanalysis and the therapeutic prescription in a context of excessive conformity to judicatory proceedings and the law.