The present research approaches the issue of violence based on psychoanalytic theory, analyzing its relation to the subjective constitution and the processes of symbolization. First, we seek to investigate the notion of violence in psychoanalysis, starting from Freud s relationship between violence, power and domination. From this path in the Freudian work we come to two authors that take violence as central concept in its works: Jean Bergeret and Piera Aulagnier. From Aulagnier s theory we understand the constitution of subjectivity as a process which develops in to an intersubjective relationship, underlining this process is the imposition of a speach that has the mark of a violent but structuring exteriority. This violence, however, may appear as a destructive excess that, instead of working in favor of the processes of symbolization, paralyzes the subject in a traumatic passivity. This excessive violence is the central theme of the second chapter, where we approach the effects of a primary alienating relationship. In the third chapter our attention is focused on the clinic, and we defend our hypothesis that some manifestations of suffering, which we witness in the clinic with children as symptoms related to emptiness (apathy, learning difficulties) as well as to the suffering of the body, are related to an excess of violence in the context of early relationships.