HYBRISTOPHILIA FROM A PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze hybristophilia from a psychoanalytic perspective, seeking to understand the unconscious mechanisms that lead certain individuals to develop attraction or desire for individuals who have committed acts of violence, crime, or social transgression. This article examines hybristophilia, the affective-sexual attraction to individuals who have committed serious crimes. From a psychoanalytic perspective, the phenomenon is discussed under different theoretical frameworks: Freud (1905, 1914, 1920, 1923), Klein (1935, 1946), Lacan (1962, 1964), and Winnicott (1958). These frameworks allow us to understand the attraction to dangerous figures as an effect of the articulation between intrapsychic conflicts, modes of attachment, and the organization of desire. Methodologically, the study adopts a qualitative bibliographic review, selecting classic authors of psychoanalysis and the sexological literature of Money (1975), given its historical and conceptual relevance. The justification supports the importance of the topic today, considering the increased social interest in cases involving famous criminals and the scarcity of theoretical studies in the Brazilian context. It concludes that hybristophilia is a multi-determined phenomenon that transcends simple moralistic or pathologizing explanations, constituting a complex expression of contemporary subjectivity. The work contributes to the academic field by offering integrated theoretical bases for future clinical, forensic, and psychological research on sexuality, violence, and romantic choice. The analysis proposes an interpretation that goes beyond simplistic or moralizing explanations, understanding hybristophilia as a complex expression of the unconscious and the subject's drive formations. Thus, it becomes evident that the choice of romantic object is traversed by unconscious structures and not only by conscious or rational factors.