Masculinidade e homicídio no divã: uma leitura sobre o matar e não morrer

Abstract

Violent crimes committed by men and directed at women and children in an intra-family context are problems of worldwide scope. In Brazil, this issue has been addressed, in different research studies, from the perspective of feminist theories and legal devices aimed at confronting violence against women, children and adolescents. However, there is a lack of psychoanalytic research focused on the perverse narcissistic functioning as a socially engendered element in the psyche of hegemonic men and inherent to this experience of masculinity. Concurrently, the occurrence of violent crimes in the family environment under the predominant authorship of men is an irrefutable data. Thus, the main objective of this study is to analyze the existence of elements of perverse narcissistic function in the discourse of hegemonic man resulting from the constitution of masculinities in Brazil, from the discourse of the accused in the Henry Borel Public case. It is also aimed at presenting data on male violent behavior and establishing connections between violence, hegemonic masculinity, and crime, based on the Psychoanalytic Theory. Finally, this study aims to offer reflective resources to professionals invested in the clinical and/or preventive performance of violent behaviors in the field of Legal Psychology. It is an Incorporated Analysis Study, exploratory, of qualitative nature, which has as a strategy the analysis of the discourse of Jairo Souza Santos Júnior from the public testimony of the defendant, indicted for the triple-qualified homicide of Henry Borel and investigated for severe violence against women who were his companions and their children. The research pointed out that the reading of the male-hegemonic discourse from the perverse narcissistic function offers reflective resources relevant to the clinical, criminological, social, and psycho-legal fields.