Contribuições da psicologia histórico-cultural para o poder de agir do trabalhador

Abstract

This article aimed to demarcate the historical-cultural bases of Activity Clinic as a proposal of Social Psychology of Work that provokes the amplification of the worker's power to act and consequent expansion of his health potential. Methodologically this was a bibliographical research that articulated Vygotsky's elaborations on the development of the activity with Clot’s contribution on the power to act of the worker. We also used research on the CAPES portal through the descriptors Clinical Activity and Psychology, Power to Act, Activity, Historical-cultural Psychology, selecting articles published in the last ten years. As results, we point to the inseparable relationship between activity and subjectivity, to the reverberation of the power to act in the production of worker's health, and to the importance of the rescue of the theoretical-methodological matrix of historical-cultural Psychology as the core of Social Psychology. It is concluded that the production of meaning and its articulation with affectivity are ethical devices in the permanent construction of a psychology committed to the transformation of reality and to the development of activity as a path of health.