Trauma, violência de Estado, colonialidade: elementos para uma clínica-política orientada pela psicanálise no contemporâneo

Abstract

Trauma, State Violence, Coloniality - Elements for a Clinical-Politics Oriented by Psychoanalysis in Contemporary

The article presents a theoretical discussion with clinical implications on trauma caused by state violence. Based on psychoanalysis, one understands that we are facing a traumatic reality inseparable from its contemporary political dimension. The discussion that is presented is part of the clinical-political work carried out at the Núcleo de Psicanálise e Política da Universidade Federal Fluminense with people affected by violations of elementary rights caused by State agents. The article reports certain difficulties in conducting the treatment, difficulties that led to significant inventions in the device, at the same time that they subverted and continue to subvert our own position in psychoanalysis. Highlighting then the political dimension of the real traumatic paradigmatic of a new discursivity in our time, we find the update of the colonial discourse acting as the truth of the neoliberal capitalist discourse. Faced with the unmasked racist enjoyment of the State, how to build and sustain a decolonial and therefore anti-racist clinic? From the serious psychic suffering that comes to us after extreme armed violence, which does not occur without effects on the collective life, the text explores what may be the conditions for opening a clinical-political space in our days.