ABSTRACT

Violence is both a common utterance, the object of sociological study, and a behavior, a symptom of something hidden and unspoken. The media, whose powerful amplifying effects are key to the machinery of elections, are partially responsible for this logorrhoea, which it then becomes very hard to shift. The difficulty of subverting a vocabulary that is now also gaining ground in psychiatry means that the word violence is, in a sense, imported. In psychiatry, the notion of security has therefore grown in importance, paradoxically where the phenomena of violence had previously not been a major concern. The opposite of violence is the possibility of psychic and even physical movement, which, if organized as a movement between different institutional spaces, can be beneficial in the treatment of the psychoses.