Projeto existencial, internação compulsória e uso de crack

Abstract

With this thesis, we direct our attention to the person that went through the experience of compulsory hospitalization due to the use of crack. This is a qualitative research, located in the Social Psychology area, specifically in the Critical Social Psychology, due to the questioning and transforming potential this theory founds. In agreement, we make use of the existential approach proposed by Jean-Paul Sartre, who situates the subject in the concrete world and understands them as socially and historically built, founded in his freedom. The general goal of our research is: understand the existential project of a person who lived the experience of compulsory hospitalization due to the use of crack. As specific goals, we highlight: questioning the antipersonification related to people who make use of crack; analyse the effects of the discourse of others over the discourse of the compulsorily hospitalized person due to the use of crack; identify the process of exclusion of people who make use of crack interwoven in the neoliberal system. The thesis is composed of two manuscripts that explore, through different, but complementary, angles, the phenomena of crack consume and compulsory hospitalization. The first, entitled “The gaze of Medusa: thoughts on the use of crack and compulsory hospitalization”, is a theoretical-critical essay about the device of compulsory hospitalization due to the use of crack, through the analogy of the Medusa myth. The second manuscript, “College was the best thing I came up with to escape crack’: notes about existential project”, aims to understand the existential project of a person who went through the experience of compulsory hospitalization due to the use of crack, where we make use of in-depth interviews to (re)build the narrative of the lifestory of a person who experienced the studied phenomena. As a conclusion, the need of constant reflexion about the use of drugs becomes evident, beyond crack only, as a means to deconstruct relations of exclusion and possibilitate an adequate access to health for those who desire so. Besides this, the compulsory hospitalization may restrain the possibilities of the one who is hospitalized, without resulting in a “cure” for the use of crack. The most effective way for the decreasing or ceasing of the consume is the reduction of harm, respecting the desires and possibilities of the subject.