Abordaje del psicólogo clínico en las instituciones judiciales. Posibles aportes desde el psicoanálisis.

Abstract

This research explores the legal processes and tools that Ecuador has in order to deal with subjects that file complaints of violence. Although the path taken before deciding whether to make a legal complaint in a situation of violence is different for each individual, it is intended to explore to what extent the plaintiff’s particularities are taken into consideration once the legal process has begun. Through an analysis of the state’s legal discourse and official documents we examine the position of the plaintiff, to whom the state directs a series of requests in consequence. This also addresses the work of the expert psychologist, his function according to the legal discourse and, at the same time, how its subjectivity is positioned within this institution. This study is intended, through lacanian psychoanalysis, to establish in to what extent an expert psychologist can use this discourse in its work. We wonder in what ways the place in which the complaining subject arises, or not, throughout the legal process. It is expected to locate possible effects that the proposed encounter would have, between the psychoanalytic discourse and the state’s legal discourse, both in the framework of the legal process and in relation to the particular suffering of those who go through it.