Virgínia Leone Bicudo, Neusa Santos Souza e Lélia Gonzalez: numa encruzilhada Vozes de uma psicanálise brasileira e descolonizada

Abstract

This Course Conclusion Paper aims to retrieve the Life Stories of three black women whose role in Brazilian psychoanalysis has long been erased. They are: Virgínia Leone Bicudo, Neusa Santos Souza and Lélia Gonzalez. The rescue of these stories, and in turn, of their protagonism, meets our objective of unveiling the epistemicide present in Brazilian psychoanalysis and proposing the (re) emergence of a decolonized psychoanalysis. To this end, we made a historical and theoretical journey about racism in and as a science, eugenics and whitening in Brazil and the production of epistemicide as a colonial technique for erasing non-Eurocentric knowledge. Then, we present the concept of Decolonization as a way to overcome this epistemicide to finally bring the Life Stories of these psychoanalysts as voices of a decolonized psychoanalysis. We were inspired by the Life Stories method and adopted its bibliographies as biographical documents. This work must be considered as a meeting and a dialogue between these psychoanalysts and the author. In this way, Virginia, Neusa and Lélia, speak here of the place of co-authors.