As starting point for this article, we take the concept of structural violence (Lebrun, 2002Lebrun J-P. (2002). Une logique d'enfer. Recuperado em 12 ago.2013 de: <http.//www.freud-lacan.com/articles/articlephp?id_article=00418>.
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), i.e., the violence of language that constitutes us as human beings. In the contemporary world, the denial of such violence has produced an additional kind of violence, which necessarily involves the deficit of the word. The analysis of a situation - a quarrel between car washers - provided indications on the manner of operation of the additional violence, undoing the symbolic effects produced by structural violence, i.e., undoing the limits imposed by language.
Language; insult; structural violence; deficit of the language