O avesso na família e as políticas sociais : entre a perspectiva da garantia de direitos e o campo do gozo

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to investigate what escapes the singularity of families assisted by social policies, whose interventions are based on the perspective of guaranteeing the rights. Based on the researcher's practice in a Specialized Reference Center for Social Assistance (CREAS), we delimited the family as a social institution, in which affective and biological bonds and the relationship between rights and duties are privileged. In Freud's and Lacan's psychoanalysis, we found another type of reading about the family, which concerns the unconscious structure, which organizes subjectivity, in which functions that do not necessarily correspond to the expected social roles are present. Thus, we go beyond the view of the family formed by subjects of rights, in order to demarcate, within the scope of this research, the reverse as a resource through which it is possible to reveal the singularity of families that escapes social policies. In this way, the present discussion will have as its main point the dimension of what we understand as being the opposite of the family field, a signifier chosen to refer to a certain veiling of the dimension of enjoyment by social policies. When we listen to the family beyond rights, we refer to the position of the family as a field of enjoyment for psychoanalysis, without opposing rights, which are fundamental for life in society. In order to guide our discussions, we used a case attended by the researcher in the public policy of social assistance and methodologically used the theory of discourses by Lacan to approach the reverse, as formulated in the relationship between the master's discourse and the analyst's discourse. Finally, we demarcate the function of psychoanalysis to direct itself against the discourses of idealization of families, by an ethical position that opposes the attempts of universalization and segregation of subjects that do not respond to social demands. Far from being an ideal, psychoanalysis offers the possibility that each person, in their own way, can create new, less deadly bonds and build other ways of life in the face of the impasses that cross the existence of each subject within their family.