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Brazilian Psychology and Public Policies: Sequestration and Resistances

Abstract

This paper discusses the role played by Psychology in Brazilian public policies, pointing to the need to dismantle the still dominant universal and individual-centered subjectivity, as well as the possibility of resistance understood as invention. For this purpose, it scrutinizes some institutions that must be confronted: the coloniality of power, whiteness and intersectionality, dialoguing with authors such as Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. The macro-political functioning of this triad seeks to reproduce situations of hierarchy, disqualification, and exclusion, upheld in everyday life micropolitics by micro-fascisms that miniaturize the need to equalize and judge. Beyond these micro-fascisms, we observe an active micropolitics established by transversality and by agencying difference. By upholding the immanence of this macro-politics in micropolitics, we insist on the inseparability of interiority/exteriority and individual/social, for a future Psychology that asserts the complexity and invention of our profession. In conclusion, we must strive for resistance and invention by calling on the collective to make a Brazilian psychology that matches our time.

Keywords:
Public Policies; Coloniality; Micropolitics; Resistance

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