A história de uma psicanálise com compromisso político e social: o retorno do recalcado

Abstract

This research intend to recount the history of a socially and politically commited psychoanalysis. From a bibliographic review of what has been produced on the subject, three major central themes were reached: public clinics as indicators on the presence of a social concern since the beginnings of psychoanalysis, the oblivion of analysts with political commitment and the latin-america's social clinics' experiences. Knowing this, a historical path was traced since Freud's speech on the 5th International Psychoanalytic Congress until contemporary times, from Central Europe to Latin America. Faced with a politically and socially implicated psychoanalysis that dates back more than a hundred years, it was seen a repression during the period of Nazism, in addition to subsequent attempts to erase this history, leaving it in the unconscious of the discipline. As a return to what was repressed, the symptomatic discourse, still hegemonic today, of a neutral and apolitical psychoanalysis emerged, restricting it to the bourgeoisie and the couch. In contrast to this conservative process, this research wants to, in an introductory way, give voice to a silenced history. Therefore, seeing myself as a continuator of what was started by Freud in 1918, I tried to continue remembering and elaborating the past so that a transformation can occur in the present