ABSTRACT.
This article addresses some effects of a political-clinical psychoanalytic inter- vention implemented at a public school in Sao Paulo. The focusconversations group held with adolescents enabled us to watch and to listen to a repeatedly returned scene, which al- lowed us to assume a social “unsaid” about students, their mothersand their family settings. Embracing the indications of Freud, Lacan, Benjamin and Gagnebin, we considered that the unsaidthat accompanies these mothers as an enduring pastunreconciled with the present, thereby causing a social and symbolic contiguity of the master’s slave girl to today’s black women. The social imaginary of these women points to a conception of servitude and sex- ually available body, which, despite the many historical changes and female achievements, still remains and istransmitted in the underground of our culture. Replacing both speeches and acts of the students and of their mothers, as laden with meaning and enrolled in a po- litical and libidinal discursive network, allows us to rediscover the power and resilience of these subjects. It is fundamental to discern between a subject placed in the place of rest in the social discourse, and a subjectivation of the lack, since while the latter is what promotes the desire, the former is what violates and silences the subject.
Keywords:
Psychoanalysis and politics; racism; schools