The murder child: Cain's lineage, a psychoanalytical study

Authors

  • Clara Cecilia Mesa Duque University of Antioquia
  • Agustín Muñoz López University of Antioquia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.affs.10811

Keywords:

guiltiness, subjective responsibility, social fabric, subjective stance, functions of punishment

Abstract

The article is the research report from the University of Antioquia about phenomenon in Colombia the last years, according to which younger and younger boys come into murder acts, establishing a repetitive circuit where they kill and are killed before the perplexed gaze of the legal system. Using the psychoanalysis, the research proposes to try to explain the deadly circuit as well as to produce an intervention answer, making possible to listen these young people and giving them a place inside the legal device –also allowing them become responsible for their acts–that achieve to calm their rush towards the death, and offering the reestablishment of the social fabric.

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Author Biographies

Clara Cecilia Mesa Duque, University of Antioquia

Psychoanalyst. Professor at the University of Antioquia. A.M.E. Forums International School of the Lacanian Field, Medellín Headquarters. Coordinator of the Investigation "The homicidal child: a psychoanalytic study", of whose results this article is part.

Agustín Muñoz López, University of Antioquia

Psychologist Pontifical Bolivarian University. Magister in Psychoanalytic Research. Co-investigator of the investigation "The homicidal child: a psychoanalytic study".

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Published

2011-12-23

How to Cite

Mesa Duque, C. C., & Muñoz López, A. (2011). The murder child: Cain’s lineage, a psychoanalytical study. Affectio Societatis, 8(15), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.affs.10811

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 15 (2011): Revista Affectio Societatis

Section

Research Articles

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