A experiência subjetiva do racismo: Frantz Fanon e o pensamento pós-fanoniano no Brasil

Abstract

This research focuses on the theme of the subjective experience of racismthroughthethoughtof Frantz Fanon and Brazilian authors such as Neusa Santos Souza, Lélia Gonzalez, andBeatriz Nascimento. In the first chapter, we explore, at a more general level, the initial andpost-colonial reception of Fanon's thought, before delving into its Brazilianreception,highlighting elements of the historical and sociocultural context, as well as pointingtodiscussions about Fanon and psychoanalysis. In the second chapter, we addresssomefundamental theoretical axes of Fanon's thought in Black Skin, White Masks. We start fromthe premise that the project inaugurated by Fanon in this work seeks to transmit a subjectiveexperience of the Black person living in a world marked by white racial supremacy, insuchaway that it becomes possible for them to become de-alienated by elaborating a discourseabout themselves, escaping the suffering, impasses, and psychic conflicts imposedbythecolonial situation. We then address the category of sociogenesis, the lived experienceofracism and its impacts on the body and subjectivity. In the final chapter, we explorethereflections of Souza, Gonzalez, and Nascimento to argue for the existence of a"post-Fanonian" thought in Brazil, represented by them, insofar as they start fromthe Fanonianproject and move forward with it, going beyond it, considering mainly the subjectivityandpsychic suffering—of the Black population in general, and of Black women in particular—within the context of Brazilian social formation, thus offering significant contributionstothefield of psychoanalysis in our country.