Abstract

MOREIRA, Jacqueline de Oliveira; SANTOS, Alessandro Pereira dos; SIQUEIRA, Fídias Gomes  and  SILVA, Ana Carolina Dias. Psychoanalysis and an Identity Political Ontology: Reading about the Expression "Black Culture". Rev. Subj. [online]. 2020, vol.20, n.spe2, pp. 1-13. ISSN 2359-0769.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5020/23590777.rs.v20iesp2.e8916.

This article intends to present some contributions from psychoanalysis to think about the context of minorities, specifically the theme of black culture. The policy thread is presented from the discussion about exclusion in the social space and the consequent segregation. Considering the ambiguities characterized by the relations of equality and difference presented in Hannah Arendt, we discuss how, in this construction of the recognition of the difference in an egalitarian field, there are also mechanisms of domination, among them, racism. Then, through Foucault's reading, we seek to identify the devices of power in the social fabric concerning the struggle of races, with the idea of the body crossed by the socio-historical and cultural context an element that presents racism as a mechanism of segregation. Following the steps of the discussion on difference and segregation, we introduce Giorgio Agamben's thought and the dimension of naked life as a central element in modern Western politics. After this articulation, which sought to address racism related to segregation, we proceed to the presentation of the construction of black culture in the Brazilian context. We take these elaborations both in their strand that tries to recover the roots of the African matrix, passing through those stigmatizing about referencing the white, and those denegatory ones, which seek to neutralize the specificities of such movement. We conclude these reflections by suggesting that the issue of Brazilian black identity must be guided by the constant movement of meaning and reframing. In this construction, questions about the relationship between the oppressed and the oppressors come into vogue, which led us to articulate Ernesto Laclau's thinking. Finally, we return to Freud and Lacan's constructions regarding the difference and the malaise that produces the encounter of the subject with civilization.

Keywords : psychoanalysis; politics; black culture.

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