O trauma colonial e os rumos da psicanálise (à) brasileira

Abstract

Psychoanalytic theory and clinic, contrary to the rest of the world, has been increasingly widespread in Brazil. Despite this growth, it is questionable how much is produced in the country and how much is imported and consumed from other countries that produce such knowledge. Since cultural changes should result in theoretical and clinical adaptations, it becomes important to investigate the reasons for this importation of knowledge. Therefore, in this study, it was necessary to trace a historical path that encompassed Brazilian colonialism and political, social and cultural conditions of the country at the time psychoanalysis entered the country’s borders. Through the colonizer's speech, it was possible to observe that the insertion of the Brazilian people into society took place in a traumatic form and this trauma, left by colonialism, still affects the Brazilian people today. The consequences are diverse and are manifested mainly through acts of violence, in the subordination of knowledge, in the “anthropophagy” of the other, in the hierarchization of knowledge, in the incessant search for identity and in the Brazilian idolization by its colonizers. Although the colonial trauma is still unraveling in the present, little is said about the topic among the scientific community. It shows the importance of giving voice to such silence, (re)thinking about the “unsaid” that haunted and still haunts the Brazilian people.