Abstract
This article aims to present some research analyzed by Pascale Molinier on defense strategies against suffering at caring labor. Under her perspective, if the work situations that produce suffering are not the same for men and women, the sufferings and consequently the defense systems to deal with them will be distinct regarding sex - some are masculine, some feminine.Under the combined perspective of Psychodynamics of Work and Sex Social Relationships, these researches allow to demonstrate a tendency to the “sexuation” of the defenses, not because of the “nature” of men and women, but because of the sexual division of work. These studies provided evidence that the modalities of subjectivation classically attributed to the psychic constellation of femininity are mostly contingent diferentiations and secondary to the experience of work.
Keywords:
Sex Social Relationships; Psychodynamics of Work; defensive systems; caring labor