LAW AND VIOLENCE

Abstract

The paper deals with the analysis of the ambivalence of the relations of the law with violence in terms of
psychoanalytic jurisprudence. This corpus is covered by the subaspects of the law and its founding crime, the traces
that such violence leaves in the division of the law into a text and an obscene, dark side in its interpretation and
application. It aims to show how two different tendencies in contemporary development of law derive from such
division and inherent lack of law: compulsive neurosis of its continuous expansion as a way of concealing the
internal division and achieving the fantasy of completeness and coherence (which ends in a conservative choice of
law in the maintenance of status quo and turning it into just another of the policies of power) on one hand; and
emancipatory power of the law, which is inscribed in its division, reflecting its attempt to rest on the ethical basis of
facing inherent limitations and attempt for constant transgression into "a law which is yet to come," on the other.