Clínica psicanalítica com pessoas negras: o que dizem as(os) psicólogas(os) negras(os) no Brasil?

Abstract

This dissertation addresses the expansion of training spaces in Psychology in Brazil, highlighting the increase and diversification of the number of psychologists. The study emphasizes the need to include the debate on racial relations in the training of these professionals, especially considering the racial dynamics in Brazil. Based on this context, the research investigates the know-how of self-declared Black Brazilian psychologists in dealing with black individuals in the psychoanalytic clinic. The theoretical framework is grounded in Psychoanalysis and includes a literature review on psychoanalysis and racial relations, highlighting various understandings of the impact of racism on subjectivity, society, and psychoanalytic practice. The main objective is to investigate what self-declared black brazilian psychologists say about their practice in psychoanalytic clinics with black people, contributing to the identification of clinical operators that consider the uniqueness of psychoanalytic practice and promoting new theoretical-clinical articulations between Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and decolonial studies. Data production involved six individual interviews conducted virtually, using the clinical interview model. Participants were named after African kings and queens, recognizing the power of their voices and the contribution of black individuals in creating inventive solutions to oppose the maintenance of coloniality, proposing new paths in the diaspora. The data analysis proceeded with the identification of privileged signifiers in the interviewees’ speeches, allowing for articulations that reflect on the training of psychoanalysts in Brazil, the practice in the psychoanalytic clinic with Black people, and the intersections between the theoretical body of psychoanalysis, decolonial perspective, and Afro-diasporic knowledge. The findings of this research deepen discussions about the paths that black psychoanalysts and practitioners have been taking towards the formation of the racialized analyst, the orientation of psychoanalytic listening, ethical conduct, and a political and poetic know-how in the psychoanalytic clinic with Black people. This work presents new perspectives for training spaces that still disregard the importance of racialization dynamics in the structuring of the psyche and the construction of subjective reality. The main contributions involve formalizing a commitment to the intersection of psychoanalytic ethics with decolonial ethics and access to current perspectives on the know-how of Black analysts in psychoanalytic clinics with black analysands.