Por uma escuta desobediente: psicanálise e antipsiquiatria em guerra (e em pacto)

Abstract

This dissertation took as its central axis the relationships between psychoanalysis and antipsychiatry, highlighting their specific approximations, disputes, tensions, and circumstantial alliances. Starting from a controversial history in which psychoanalysis influenced and was influenced by psychiatric practices, the research sought to make explicit how this ambivalence opened space, at the same time, for complicities and resistances. Nowadays, this discussion acquires urgency in times of frank psychiatric expansion, when diagnostic identities begin to circulate as rapid explanations for the administration of conduct. The social value of suffering and the moralization it underwent in different phases of the construction of the psy knowledges were also highlighted. In this scenario, antipsychiatry was taken as a critical position toward psychiatric power, the violence perpetrated in the form of treatment, and the asylum logic that becomes established without the need for walls. Finally, possibilities for counter-hegemonic practices were pointed out as forms of demedicalizing practices with which psychoanalysis could ally itself.