Abstract
This article addresses perversion in the clinical and social field, comprehending the clinic as a field of investigation through which it is possible to access the current social phenomena and dominant discourses. We worked with research in psychoanalysis, choosing to dialogue mainly with readings of two authors - Contardo Calligaris and Edilene Queiroz - who use their experience in the psychoanalytical clinic to build an analysis concerning the social field. Taking a text by Calligaris (1991) entitled A Sedução Totalitária (1991), along with the book A Clínica da Perversão (2004), by Queiroz, we intended to merge them, having as common thread a professional experience working in the Witness Protection Program (Provita). Some of the psychoanalytical concepts that are used in this study are the perverse structure, discourse and assembly, as nodal points of the clinical and social analysis. The working experience with the witnesses in the Program enabled some associations with aspects concerning the field of perversion.
Keywords:
perversion; clinic; social; Witness Protection Program