CAPS-POEIRA: encontros possíveis entre a Psicanálise e a Capoeira Angola nos grupos operativos do CAPS-ad

Abstract

This work should be seen as a locus of experiences and moves derived by Angola capoeira workshop at CAPS-ad, a rehabilitation unity which offers therapeutic accompaniment to addicts to alcohol and other drugs. The aims of this work are to apprehend and to name the meanings produced by the meeting between psychoanalysis and Angola capoeira in the operative groups formed by CAPS-ad users as well as to re-signify the understanding of toxicomania in current studies and to incite the visibility of addicts condition of marginalization and subjecting. As a psychologist researcher and an Angola capoeira practitioner, I coordinated eleven weekly meetings at CAPS-ad. During theses meetings, we performed chatting, musicalizing, and moving; besides, I interviewed CAPS-ad users who partook in the groups formed to perform such activities and who made up the operative group modality. Each meeting included these activities to make the groups reflect and grow unquiet about their social roles, their familiar bonds, and their relationship with drugs. The interpretive method based on the psychoanalytical principles resulted in analytical versions of each part of the research process, which made addicts silencing and subjecting come into view as a phenomenon that conceals the I m-an-addict identity. By taking into account the complex phenomenon of drug addiction and its psychic, social, familiar and economic aspects, this work poses a questioning of the social paradox regarding addicts, the institutional failure, and the silencing which permeates and marginalizes these people because of a lack of symbolic representation of drugs. Throughout the process, it was observed and described bodily, psychic, and social movements revealed by addicts speech and gestures in meetings and interviews. Thus, in a situation where drugs seemed to be a precarious exit in life to scenes of violence, suicide, and self-mutilation, Angola capoeira emerged as a symbolic possibility of psychic expanding and life re-signification.