Del padre a la ley como objetos transicionales (entre la palabra y la sangre)

The father and the law as transitional objects (from blood to the world)

A partir de las nociones winnicottianas de objetos y fenómenos transicionales, se postula al padre real como el objeto transicional por excelencia, quien reviste y representa para el niño un valor de uso y una ley manual. En condiciones adecuadas, el padre y la ley como objetos transicionales son sustituidos por el Padre y la Ley simbólica que representa; en situaciones adversas que se  perpetúan como tales al no lograrse la sustitución simbólica y en casos extremos devienen objetos fetiches. Estos tres  destinos dan cuenta de la violencia simbólica, de la imaginaria y de la real, que tienen como actantes al colectivo, a la comunidad y al individuo.

Starting from Winnicott's notions of transitional objects and phenomena, the real father, who is invested with a use-value and a practical law and is conceived in this way by the child, is posited as the transitional object par excellence. In appropriate circumstances, the father and his law, in their status as transitional objects, are substituted by the symbolic father and the law that he re presents. In adverse circumstances in which the symbolic substitution is not successful, they continue to be transitional objects, and in the worst cases they become fetish objects. These three vicissitudes account for symbolic, imaginary and real violence, whose agents are the collectivity, the comunity and the individual.