Construcción narrativa de la violencia de pareja entorno a las relaciones de poder

Abstract

The purpose of the present thesis is to understand the construction of the experience of couple violence around the power relations that are configured in the life stories of women who go to the Secretary of Women of Villavicencio for primary psychological care. Methodologically this research is oriented in the hermeneutics by the biographical-narrative method and executed under the strategy of life history, in this way counts on the story of five participants that went to the Women's Secretary, which at some time their life they experienced violence of couple. The paradigm of complexity and its principles together with the systemic - narrative approach, second order cybernetics, constructivism and social constructionism were guides to develop the present investigation, being the language the enabling tool in the construction of the experience of violence and life story of the participants. The categories proposed for this study were: partner violence, composed of the sub-categories of physical, psychological and sexual violence; Power relations composed of the sub-categories of dimensions: Family, couple and social and narrative construction. Categories systematized and analyzed from the stories of women by analysis matrices complying with the parameters of the qualitative approach. How important findings could be appreciated from what was reported by the participants how the dynamics of power are framed in different contexts and dimensions generating concessions that favor the emergence of partner violence as an expression of the patriarchal culture in which highlights the supremacy of man over woman.