O genocídio da juventude negra e as trilhas do gozo racista

Abstract

This thesis deals with the psychological consequences and the unconscious incidence of slavery in the psyche of all Brazilians, trying to articulate those consequences with the genocide of black youth, based on the hypothesis that this phenomenon is traumatic evidence of slave heritage and corollary to the denialism of Brazilian racism. In addition to data on crime and death, it reconstructs the historical path of colonial domination and slavery, situating the inferiorization of the black people as a condition for domination and deals with the traumatic slave heritage and its transgenerational transmission in the context of the psychic consequences left by slavery, also pointing out how the black body was made a commodity for exploitation purposes. It also deals with Brazilian racism in its multiple forms of expression, anchored in the psychic mechanism of the denial – Verleugnung – as a way of operating and having in negaism the anchorage that covers and guarantees the privilege of white people at the price of exclusion and death of black ones. The genocide of black youth is a current phenomenon of Brazilian society, not dislinked from other genocides that sustained the processes of domination, colonization, and enslavement. The tracks of racist jouissance allowed the identification of correlations and equivalences between the past and the present, demonstrating a process that has not yet ended and has in the particularity of Brazilian racism a spring that drives the exclusion and death of some.