Uma jornada de humilhações

Abstract

In this dissertation we seek to understand lhe meaning of humiliation in lhe speech about health, iIIness and work and recognize lhe patient not only by lhe diagnosis, but algo by understanding lhe meaning constructed and maintained by lhe patient based on lhe contradictions and conflicts of relations socially experienced. Our aim was algo to know what were lhe expectations of lhe humiliated, concerning lhe trade union moverrient. Our philosophic reference is Espinosa and his ethical conception of feelings and diseases of body as idea of lhe seul and lhe socio-historic theory of Vygotsky that allowed us to construct methodologically lhe analysis of lhe discursive rhetoric of lhe subjects. We talked with 2072 workers (men and women) of 97 companies, and 42% of them declared to have gane trough situations of humiliation that became more frequent after lhe fali of productivity. Our conclusion is that humiliation is pathogenic, is a risk for health and is related to authoritarian relations of power, strengthening lhe inclusion trough exclusion. In this sense, lhe trade unions have an ethical responsibility: to understand lhe suffering of lhe other and create "new spaces" of "good meetings", as Espinosa says, where lhe workers can speak affectively trust and find new strength to fight