It is in the tension and mutual feeding between two axes; that of equals (allies or competitors) and that of unequals (dominators and dominated), where, according to the author, the etiology of violence, the power plant for its production, can be investigated. A structure common to all systems in which status marks inflect the modern expansion of the citizen contract, gender relations are, however, considered here the paradigmatic scene of it. As we know them, in what the author calls "the long patriarchal history", they are presented as the elemental cell of all violence. Understanding the sphere of intimacy is the support that anthropology and psychoanalysis provide to the law to assist in its task of pacifying society. Only through a reform of privacy will it be possible to dismantle the escalation of societal violence, from the microscopic levels of domestic aggression to the macr...read more