THE "WITHOUT FEELINGS"

subjects in marginalization and language

Abstract

Identifying as one of the effects of marginalization on subjectivity, the theft of the intimate word, the choking of singular speech that escapes the narrow repertoire of discourses that already precede them, we have been developing workshops in different contexts with people who, or have passed through the penal, socio-educational system, or are effectively in them. Because we realize that, in some way, there is a serious difficulty in talking about feelings, that is, in talking about what makes us up but that does not have a clear outline, which is not evident even for ourselves and precisely because this is what we are, we made this perception the reason for a series of psychoanalytically inspired activities with young interns at the CRIAAD and CAI units - Baixada do Degase / RJ. In this article, then, the expression, common to be advertised as a “positive” characteristic of the criminal, “without feeling”, found written in pencil, even on one of the tables in the room where we work with them, triggers a seam among some reports from our workshops and a theoretical repertoire of studies of subjectivity, notably, drawing consequences from the concept of necropolitics in Mbembe, in the sense of investigating how the subjectivities marked by the identification as “killable” are falsely divorced from their feelings, settling in a supposed coldness monstrous that, in life, facilitates living with his death while imminent.