Entre o divã e os porões: a história como via de elaboração e (re)construção do presente

Abstract

In Brazil, the interest in expanding the psychoanalytic clinic device is not recent, and in recent years this has only increased. It is in this context of revisiting the social commitment of psychoanalysis and the growing interest in its own history that this text appears with the goal of executing a work of “recollection” through bibliographical research. At first, a review was made on some facts that permeated the psychoanalytic movement during World War I and that outlined Freud's speech in 1918; then, the expansion of psychoanalysis through Public Clinics and Training Institutes was adressed. There was a focus regarding only the first three institutions: Berlin, Vienna and London, covering three aspects: structure, functioning and conflicts with the medical community. In light of that, the fourth chapter focused on the analysis of formation and impasses in relation to lay analysis. Leaving the 1920s and arriving in the 1930s, the fifth chapter proposes to discuss the salvation policy of psychoanalysis in Nazism, characterized by adaptation, silencing and repression. Following this line, the case of Amílcar Lobo of the business-military dictatorship was understood as a continuation of the apoliticalism that gained strength in the Third Reich. In view of what was discussed throughout the text, it is concluded that the dissociation between psychoanalysis and politics was not always present in the psychoanalytic movement, especially in the 20s. In a context of rescuing the social commitment of psychoanalysis, history appears as a possible way to elaborate its repressed past.