O testemunho como um potente operador nas políticas de reparação integral no Brasil

Abstract

This article highlights the importance of testimonial action as an instrument for the construction of individual and collective memory, of Political Memory about situations of traumatic violence to which subjects and societies were subjected. It emphasizes the subjective experience produced by testimony in the context of the psychological/psychoanalytical clinic and in that promoted by cultural equipment, fi lmography, literature, plastic arts, as contributions to knowledge about state violence in totalitarian regimes. It exposes reparation processes and measures in Brazil at times of power shifts in recent years: advances in comprehensive reparation and periods of serious setbacks in public policies. It values the work of professionals in the fi eld of clinical psychology/psychoanalysis and workers in the challenge of seeking innovative reparations when the state is absent.