Trauma e violência sexual: considerações a partir da obra Desconstruindo Una

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the potential of, or, the traumatic character that the sexual violence can assume in the childhood according to adult women’s narratives. For this, it was required the contributions of the Hungarian psychoanalyst Sándor Ferenczi, especially those that are related to the theory of pathogenic trauma. According to Ferenczi, the pathogenic trauma is a consequence of the discredit of violence and suffering. The investigation was based in the work Becoming Unbecoming, by the English writer Una, that remembers, through a composition between writing and image, the sexual violence suffered by her in the childhood. Thanks to this work, it was possible to establish and make considerations about the relation between trauma, anguish, fault, shame and silence. The Literature is understood as a space of subjectivation of trauma, both for who write their experiences and for other women who have passed through similar traumatic events, but that have never spoken about them. An important contribution for this study was the works surrounding the Literature of the witnesses and the conception of witness, since it is the recognition of suffering that makes possible the ways for the narration and for the representation of the traumatic scene. The investigation and the study of this theme can contribute to a discussion about a social dimension of the trauma, as well as being a debate that in the last years has gained social visibility and organized movements, especially in the social media, where the victims, in the most part of the cases, women, talk, for the first time, about their suffered violence.