SOME POSSIBILITIES TO UNDERSTAND VIOLENT ATTITUDES AGAINST LGBT PEOPLE

Abstract

A play entitled Campeonato Interdrag de Gaymada, presented at the 2017 Curitiba Theater Festival, brought to the light issues such as the aggression against Trans and LGBT population by the performance of a game called “Queimada” or “Caçador”, which means to burn or to hunt the opponents (players from another team). Intolerance and hate becoming act, a primary process, according to Freud (1895), in which psychic energy flows freely without representation. There is in society an exclusion pattern of people with different sexual options, since they diverge from what is socially, culturally and historically accepted or agreed. The perversity of a homophobic individual may be understood as an outlet to guilty related to unconscious experiences towards a loved object when faced to inability to deal to repression, which may induce the person to homophobia, in a perverse and compensatory circuit to the experienced discomfort. The aim of this text is to discuss, in a psychoanalytic view, what makes some people act aggressively, violently or in a persecutory mode, aiming to “burn” their counterparts. By means of psychoanalysis it is possible to believe that there are alternative ways to deal with hate, such as talking about it.