The wounds of violence between fear and terror

Abstract

The authors show the continuity that exists between State Dictatorship and Private Dictatorship, pointing out how the both use a terror-based strategy rather than a fear-based one. If in the totalitarian regimes in which terror reigns it is almost impossible to organize the dissent or the resistance without an economic or socio-politic support, in women victims of violence the silence, often incomprehensible, it is the effect of the impotent passiveness intentionally produced by the Private Dictator; such wounds of the body and the mind don’t enhance escapement, as fear naturally would, but forced submission and terror of dying if you try to get out of the passivity. The authors report drawns from interviews with women who have suffered violence within a marital relationship and that have asked for help only after a long time violence. Only in presence of a groupal link a strategy of resistance or a chance for denunciation can make its way. Then it becomes relevant the role of those protected places and structures where women can be heard and can defeat the terror that disorganize the thought and the word so they can found the appropriate actions to come out of the silence.