Abstract
This article aims to reflect upon psychoanalytic contributions to the professional practice of listening to work-related suffering based on the Psychodynamics of Work (PdT), the centrality of work, and the listening of the word at the Occupational Clinic. The PdT is a clinical knowledge based on the description and knowledge of the relationships between work, suffering, pleasure, and mental health. In this context, the centrality of work is crucial for attributing meaning and understanding the suffering at work. Besides proposing that the individual should be listened to, the Psychoanalysis demarcates an important territory for the word - fundamental for listening to work-related suffering, since the word emerges within that place. In considering the signifiers of the individual history of each worker, such knowledge accounts for the importance of each subject singularity without excluding the social determiners and conditions in which these symptoms are produced. Thus, such process evinces the relevance of the contributions of psychoanalysis to the professional practice of listening to work-related suffering, for such theories consider the singularity of that subject without ignoring work organization.
Keywords:
Suffering at Work; Psychoanalysis; Psychodynamics of Work; Worker’s Health