O papel da psicanálise na desconstrução do racismo à brasileira

Abstract

Returning to historical aspects of colonial and imperial slavery related to the transatlantic slave trade and its installation and maintenance in Brazilian lands, we conducted a psychoanalytically oriented analysis about the effects of this historical experience, both in societal and discursive terms, as well as in subjective and unconscious terms. Our objective is to situate the specificity of the logic of racism in Brazil, unveiling the unconscious mechanisms of its maintenance and the subjective effects of its experience. We highlight how Brazilian racism was structured as brand racism, with a social use defined by association with the class and governed by the ideal of whiteness. We analyzed the figures of denial that engender ambivalence and the veiling of the racist position of the Brazilian, seeking to elucidate some ways for their deconstruction and overcoming from psychoanalysis.