Víctimas: de la identificación a la invención

Abstract

This research will try to circumscribe the role of the concept of victim in the Lacanian-oriented psychanalysis, positioning itself in a fertile discussion with other movements about this complex subject which set a lot of question for being such a wide and current topic. The psychanalysis place the subject and its responsibilities as an unavoidable ethic reference. We set, in this sense, the fundamental premise that there is no “victim”, in a general sense, but specific cases where it is taken as a starting point or reference. Estela de Carlotto’s testimony, President of the Asociación Abuelas Plaza de Mayo [Grandmother’s May Square Association], illustrates how the subject, by going through the word, gives proof of its living choses, take a particular position about them and accepts the consequences of its acts. Going through the word may be, in this sense, an opportunity to invent from what it is unexpected, avoiding, in this particular case, a position based on the horror as a whole.