CECCARELLI, Paulo Roberto. The new repressive order. Psicol. cienc. prof. []. 2010, 30, 4, pp.738-751. ISSN 1414-9893.

According to the author, some form of control according to the discourse of the social-historical moment we are going through has always marked humanity. This text discusses some contemporaneous instruments of control and repression. If religion has dictated the social norms for centuries, in modernity religious truths have been substituted by scientific statements that believed in historical linearity and conceived the world in a determinist way, based on the capacity of science on giving answers. Post-modernity has radically questioned the certitudes of modernity, which made appear new mechanisms of control. For the author, the necessity of the human being to create representations and devices to support and to nominate his/her inherent anguish leads him/her to submit himself/herself to a large variety of repressive discourses. Current scientific discourse, alongside with the many expressions of the “politically correct”, became an ideological instrument that express the search for normalization and standardization of behaviors, which generates a new repressive order. Concerning psychic health, the diagnosis manuals, supported by the pharmacological industries, transformed behaviors, individualities and diversities into pathologies and, at the same time, singularities into abnormalities. Which is the social commitment of psychologists in this debate?

: Repression; Psychopathology; Social commitment; Psychologist performance.

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