O lugar da psicanálise frente ao racismo na cultura brasileira: uma revisão teórica

Abstract

Psychology was constituted in Brazil through the appropriation by the Brazilian intellectual elite of psychological studies relevant to the issues addressed by the notion of the modern individual, which, nevertheless, was consolidated within the social, historical and cultural transformations of countries in Europe and Latin America. Central America in the 20th century XIX. Particularly, in spite of the contradictions involved in the production of Brazilian psychological science since more ancient times, the development of psychoanalytic knowledge in our society was also crossed by inconsistencies in practice, mainly when linked to psychiatric medicine with its hygienist objectives in the measures of control and marginalization of former slaves. The objective of this work was to investigate and discuss the place of psychoanalysis in relation to ethnic-racial issues, nowadays, in view of the historical factors mentioned above. Through the review of the literature addressed to the subject, the problematization of Brazilian psychoanalysis was important for us to think about the restrictions and contributions of clinical practice and Freudian notions in relation to the violence inherent to racism in our culture, and in its forms of production of suffering and psychologists in the subjects In addition to the clinic, we survey and discuss some psychoanalytic theoretical constructs discussed by authors in the area engaged in ethnic-racial issues in Brazil, in the articulations made between psychoanalysis and society. We conclude that there are several studies on racial relations in Brazil within psychoanalysis, inaugurating a critical thinking within this field.