The denial of the other and the eurocentrated psychoanalytic clinic

Abstract

This article proposes a dialogue between the psychoanalytic clinic and racism, addressing the socio-historical aspects of colonial and imperial enslavement that still persists in contemporary times, and considering the psychoanalytic clinic as a place that does not escape this colonial structuring, especially in the Brazil. If the psychoanalytic clinic porposes to listen the marks, stories and narratives intrinsic to the subjetc´s existence, then, what´s done When racism is on the scene? In this sense, based on this questioning, thinkers such as Isildinha Nogueira (1998), Frantz Fanon (2008), Aimé Césaire (1978), Aníbal Quijano (2005), among others, will be used methodologically in order to explain how the historical experiences of slavery, impact social structures and unconcious aspects of the psyche of the black bodies people. This conclusion points to the need for Psychoanalysis and the analyst´s work to transcend the individual scope and expand to the political, historical and social field, in order to deal with the complexities of structural racismo and its repercussions on mental health of individuals.