Abstract

RIBEIRO, Elton Silva  and  BAPTISTA, Luis Antonio dos Santos. CLATTER AND PEACE OF A BODY IN THE CITY: PARADOXES OF THE PRODUCTION OF DIFFERENCE IN THE CONTEMPORARY. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2016, vol.22, n.2, pp. 374-391. ISSN 1677-1168.  http://dx.doi.org/DOI-10.5752/P.1678-9523.2016V22N2P374.

The subject of social inclusion and the struggle against practices of intolerance are significant issues to mental health actions. In these projects, the city arises as a locus of civil rights consolidation, although the political polysemy of the city, the difference or the civil rights may be not under consideration. This paper aims to investigate the production of difference in urban experience, as well as the ethical implications involved in this process. Inspired by the theoretical contributions of Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault, among others, this paper intends to discuss the paradoxes present in affirming the potency of difference on the daily life of a city, as well as the impoverishment of its questioning power over the inclusive actions in mental health. This paper’s ethical supply wages on the potency of difference in producing destabilizing encounters with madness, with the city and with the present. Encounters that may affirm the political power of the unfinishedness that makes vulnerable the compactness of beliefs inspired by paralyzing optimisms and pessimisms nowadays

Keywords : Politics; Difference; City; Subjectivity.

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