Abstract:The paper aims to highlight the semiotic elements of the discourse that refer to the symbolic ones of representations, and that transform the therapy in an exercise of medical power aimed to modify the perception of the self by the female patients through the subversion of specific emotional script.The mapping of the emotional scripts of shame and modesty, in their performative evolution, will be useful to demonstrate how and through what relational strategies the medicalization performs a gender violence whic… Show more
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