About responsibility as a criterion of quality of interventions with men who commit violence in couples contexts

Authors

  • Gabriel Abarca Brown Universidad de Santiago de Chile
  • Diego Aguirre Alvarado Universidad de Santiago de Chile; Centro de Salud Dr. Alejandro del Río
  • Mauricio Carreño Hernández Universidad de Santiago de Chile; COSAM Colina

Abstract

The present article aims to discuss about the conceptions of responsibility as a criterion of quality of interventions with men that commit violence in couple contexts, at the light of the contributions of Bourdieu’s sociology and freudian-lacanian psychoanalysis. It is discussed about volitional dimension assigned to the violent act, on the one hand, and the kantian stamp with which there is conceived the ideal one of assumption of responsibility, on the other; which would tend to displace and ensure dimensions that they determine and position to the subjects in their generic relations. Also, a conception of responsibility covered within the framework of the ethics of care as a priority status in the work with men is promoted.

Keywords:

responsibility, masculine domination, violence in couple contexts, interventions with men, ethics of care