Racism and collective trauma at the center of clinical and historical studies

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Maria Inês Assumpção Fernandes

Abstract

This paper seeks to reflect on the problem of racism as a collective trauma and its implications in the clinical field, using the group - as a device - as an analytical space. To do this, it is necessary to consider the close connection between the device, the institutional framework and the social context in transferential work. These reflections will have to be carried out taking into account a) the process of colonization in Brazil and its inherent founding violence, which expresses an ordering of ties sustained by conscious and unconscious alliances shaped by slavery; b) the notion of intersectionality as a critical investigation and the problem of contractualization in today's world; and c) the psychic function of racism as an ideology (Cf. Kaës, 1980-2016) and the subjective incidences resulting from it.

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Section

Contemporary Criticism

Author Biography

Maria Inês Assumpção Fernandes, Universidade de São Paulo

Full Professor at the Institute of Psychology, University of São Paulo.

How to Cite

Racism and collective trauma at the center of clinical and historical studies. EXILIUM Journal of Contemporary Studies, [S. l.], v. 5, n. 9, p. 77–85, 2024. DOI: 10.34024/exilium.v5i9.19819. Disponível em: https://periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/exilium/article/view/19819. Acesso em: 5 dec. 2025.