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Brazilian Psychology during the Democratic and National Cycle and the Democratic and Popular Cycle

Abstract:

Based on the assumption of the relation between Psychology and certain class commitments, we will seek to demonstrate how its history is connected with the history of Brazilian society and with the main ideologies of two of its historical cycles: the Democratic and National cycle and the Democratic and Popular cycle. As a method, we will adopt the premises, logic and concepts deriving from Marxist tradition, especially those emanating from the works of the Sardinian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. At the same time, we will seek to point out how the Psychology born during the Democratic and Popular cycle, notwithstanding its contribution to the reflection on the ideological and elitist character of Brazilian Psychology, not necessarily stopped playing a certain ideological role too, either by wiping the core of the Marxist social theory out of its analysis, or by promoting practices that contribute little to enhance the struggles of the subordinated classes for its radical emancipation. With this purpose, we expect to contribute with some observations to the critique of the ideology of the social compromise, to which this Psychology is closely related, in the same way that Psychology was closely related to the national-developmentalist ideology during the Democratic and National cycle.

Keywords:
Critical Psychology; History of Psychology; National and Democratic Cycle; Democratic and Popular Cycle; Marxism

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