Care for women in situations of male violence from the singularity of each one: from the social symptom to the case by case

Abstract

Committed to the objective of achieving a society in which women and everything associated with the feminine are not subject to segregation and violence, the association El Safareig has moved on from its initial activism to offer services to women. This process of professionalisation in listening has not been without orientation, as the encounter with Lacanian psychoanalysis has provided an essential framework for questioning and interpreting the unease of the contemporary subject. By engaging in dialogue with certain feminist discourses, it has called into question The Universal Woman of feminism as an ideal, and therefore also what is expected of The Battered Woman. Homogenising what happens to women can have the effect of obstructing the question of their involvement in it. If the social is inscribed in each one of them in a particular way, we will have to listen to them one by one.