[Prejudice, women, and psychiatry. As crazy as your mom].
If being named somehow is condition of human existencies and to a certain extent also makes them determinate, then the dimension of prejudice is perhaps irreducible; at least in this sense, as a previous idea being the site of understanding, reflection and production. The present work starts from the ideas of the production and transformation of reality produced by the theoretical developments that describe and legitimate the practice of a certain discipline and the notion of gender as a socio historical category referring to the social relations of power and subordination established between males and females and are translated, through an extrapolative operation, into social inequalities. By going through the psychoanalytic conceptualisation of the Oedipus Complex in women, an understanding is made possible of some prejudices affecting psychiatrists in thier practice with women pacients. An attempt to read from a particular theoretical framework that makes these women what is called mad, starts from the history of those that name them in such a manner, with reference to the nexus with the mother. Such nexus is transited by each, with a better or worse destiny. Taking into account the responsibility of a determinate creation of subjectivity from the position of subject of the enunciation that is produced in the daily task from a particular ethical position.
Sobredo
Laura Dolores
LD
Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. lausobredo@hotmail.com
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders; D009035:Mothers; D009813:Oedipus Complex; D011287:Prejudice; D011570:Psychiatry; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology*