Entre o crepúsculo e a aurora: uma arqueogenealogia da crise e dos ressurgimentos da clínica psicológica

Abstract

The objective of this work is to present an arqueo-genealogical perspective on the constitution of the national psychological clinical space, on the preludes of its crisis. Taking the discourses that compose a mosaic of narratives about the emergence of the psychological clinic in Brazil in the early 1960s, to the statements of its crisis from the late 1970s to the present day, we follow the increasing attacks on the constitution of clinical practices in psychology. Curiously, along with such discourses, one can see the strengthening of the social as an expanded space of practices and growth of performance in psychology, converging to new discursive formations that affirm the necessity of the expansion and transformation of contemporary psychology, allied to social dispositives. As a new challenge for the contemporary psychologist, the discourse on the crisis of the psychological clinic seems to become a tangle of new contours for the science and profession of Brazilian psychologists, under the horizon of epistemological, ethical, technical and methodological debates which in our ears whisper and effect, with exquisite discretion, the strengthening of clinical power, enlarged under all horizons of psychological action.