WHAT WE DO WITH HATRED: HARM AND COPING IN THE FACE OF BULLYING SEXUAL AND GENDER DIVERSITY

Abstract

I discuss the findings of a research in social and cultural studies obtained through discourse analysis, which was aimed at studying the disciplinary, sex and gender devices experienced in their primary education by a group of current students of public universities of Costa Rica. As in a previous research I had anticipated that primary education seemed to have been a fundamental source of psychic suffering due to these devices, a main input of this work is that my hypothesis was confirmed after analysing their narratives. Nevertheless, the analysis also showed that these persons, who were
ignominiously marked as abnormal, were able to create multiple and sophisticated mechanisms to cope with such suffering.