Abstract

ASSIS, Geisa Karla Oliveira de  and  RIBEIRO, Heloisa Fernandes Caldas. Psychoanalytic Contributions to the Roots of Racism. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2022, vol.22, n.3, pp.1245-1263.  Epub May 06, 2024. ISSN 1808-4281.  https://doi.org/10.12957/epp.2022.69563.

This article collects psychoanalytic contributions regarding the phenomenon of racism, its place in the constitution of Western, Brazilian society and in the constitution of the subject. The aim is to examine the analyses of black people far beyond the mere statement that being black and fighting against racism would lead to the formation of a group and would make the emergence of subject’s singularity unfeasible. Therefore, we have sought the scarce psychoanalytical contributions on the subject in order to approach the issue of racism. We have studied the concept of race and racism in other fields of knowledge in order to understand the mechanism of racism as a social, historical and political construct. We have approached the concepts of hatred and expulsion in psychoanalysis and realized that such mechanisms are involved both not only in the foundation of a type of social bond but also in the foundation of the subject. Finally, we have rescued the contributions made from the field of psychoanalysis by Lélia Gonzalez regarding the role of racism in the constitution of black subjectivity and in Brazilian society and culture.

Keywords : psychoanalysis; racism; segregation; segregation designation.

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