Psycho-analytic movement

invisibilities and denials

Abstract

In this article the author examines the political dimension that crosses the psychoanalytic movement since the establishing of the famous tripod – personal analysis, supervision and theoretical formation – in the Berlin Institute of Psychoanalysis from 1920 onwards. If previously the transmission of psychoanalysis – as it was observed in the Wednesday reunions at Freud’s house – was based in an ethical orientation that, referred to the differences between the analysts, resulted in the ex-
changes and theoretical productions. From 1920 onwards there was a displacement to the moral field of the psychoanalytic institutions where prevailed the character of who could become an analyst, according to exclusion criteria of certain practices, losing sight of the multiplicity in therelationships between subjects and the social bond. Specifically, this text seeks to approach how this displacement affected Brazilian psychoanalysis in the sense of promoting a depoliticization of its
institutions until the 2018 elections, which implied a series of denials and invisibilities concerning the specificity of the Brazilian socio-political context.