Psiquismo racializado? : uma leitura psicanalítica sobre subjetividade a partir da teoria da sedução generalizada e da decolonialidade

Abstract

This thesis proposes the development of the concept of enigmatic messages of racist designation both to enhance the psychosocial debate on anti-Black racism and to racialize Jean Laplanche's General Theory of Seduction (GTS). In doing so, it aims to provide theoretical support for understanding how the psyche is constituted in relation to anti-Black racism, especially regarding its functioning, maintenance, and potential strategies for resistance. In dialogue with decolonial studies, I undertake an exploration of the GTS to both develop metapsychological reflections that help elucidate the impacts of structural racism on subjectivation, and to call upon psychoanalysis to rethink itself as a field of knowledge organized around the dynamics of coloniality and racism. In Chapter 1, I present the potential of the GTS for understanding anti-Black racism. In Chapter 2, I introduce sociological and political discussions to explore racism and coloniality as narrative frameworks, and race and whiteness as codes that contribute to the constitution of the psyche within Brazilian reality. In Chapter 3, I critically examine psychoanalytic interpretations of anti-Black racism that are based on the notion of the narcissism of minor differences, characterizing them as egocentric and Ptolemaic readings. In Chapter 4, I present psychoanalytic contributions on anti-Black racism that address the specificities arising from colonialism and coloniality. This presentation is carried out in dialogue with the GTS to pave the way for the next chapter. In Chapter 5, I systematize the concept of enigmatic messages of racist designation by analyzing interviews and national research that exemplify how the psyche of the Brazilian population is constituted as racialized and shaped by coloniality.