ABSTRACT
Sometimes, one can have access to the central phantasy of patients who resort to violence that is acted out. This phantasy is often an account of the primal scene in which their pre-oedipal and oedipal theories appear. In S. Freud's work, moreover, it is almost exclusively within the context of the primitive scene and Oedipus complex that the term “violence” appears. At the root of all violent behaviour, it is as if there is an intrigue or narrative that is seeking to express itself. This unconscious narrative is sometimes expressed in a screen memory that takes up an “event” from childhood (real or fantasised). It provides an explanation that the subject gives to himself or his existence. Sometimes, this recourse to enacted violence is the only means that the subject has to communicate how he sees his existence, his relationships with others, and the mythical narrative that he can establish of his origins.
