Relações raciais sob a análise psicológica de Frantz Fanon: mapeamentos nas disseratações e teses do Programa de Pós-graduação em Psicologia da UFBA

Abstract

Race relations are dynamic components of human interaction. The self-declaration and/or hetero-identification of individuals as white and black people (that is, their racialization) plays a central role in people's lives and in social organization. The racial hierarchization of human lives needs to be seen as a structured violence that requires more and more social commitment and a struggle to be overcome. By designating this form of violence as racism here, we align with the perspective of Frantz Fanon (1968, 2020a, 2020b, 2021), who primarily understands it as a constant update of the modern colonial experience. This can be seen sharply in Brazilian society, according to the pioneering studies of black psychoanalysts Virgínia Leone Bicudo [1945] (2010), Isildinha Baptista Nogueira (1998) and Neusa Santos Souza (1983). Furthermore, we can suggest convergences in the studies of the four authors, such as the existence of a racialized subjectivation marked by the colonial past and its updating in contemporary racism; the psychological impact of racism at the individual and collective levels; the relevance of the lived experience and the consideration of psychoanalytic theories, not only as a tool of interpretation, constituting an individual that is still little explored academically, according to Ferreira (1999), Martins, Santos and Colosso (2013) and Schucman, Nunes and Costa (2017). Therefore, our research problem is to identify how race relations are addressed in dissertations and theses defended at PPGPSI-UFBA. How is the articulation between subjectivity and racialization characterized in those contexts? In order to try to answer these questions, we incorporated the methodological contribution of the analysis of public documents (SPINK, 2004) considering that dissertations and theses are discursive practices. The results point to the epistemic diversity of the psychological field, the demand for a greater critical production on racial relations, the need to consider the racial theme with the inclusion of the self-declaration racial request and its operationalization as a category of analysis (depending on the research objective).