http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/23849 2026-05-31T06:01:28Z 2026-05-31T06:01:28Z Lima, Stephanie Caroline Ferreira de http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86504 2026-05-27T14:53:43Z 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

Título: “O que resta além da crítica é desperdício”: uma análise feminista e interseccional sobre o encarceramento feminino Autor(es): Lima, Stephanie Caroline Ferreira de Abstract: Intersectional critical social theory is by no means antagonistic to Feminist Critical Theory. Although some authors within the latter maintain that there is a separation between theoretical production and political activism, both criticality and radicality are constructed in each through the self-reflexivity enabled by constant and interdisciplinary dialogue. Guided by a feminist critical imagination, this doctoral thesis in Psychology (UFC) has as its general objective the articulation of the debate between authors of U.S. Feminist Critical Theory and Marxist, post-structuralist, and decolonial authors from the Global South and Global North with Black feminist thought — radical and intersectional. The specific objectives are: (a) to situate Angela Davis within Feminist Critical Theory; (b) to understand the proposal of restorative justice (Davis) and its implications for struggles aimed at dismantling prison systems; (c) to articulate Patricia Hill Collins’s intersectional critical social theory and that of other contemporary Black feminist thinkers with Feminist Critical Theory; (d) to discuss the relationship between penal vulnerability and the normative frameworks (re)produced by the penal state and public security policies; and (e) to analyze the criminalization of incarcerated women through an intertwining of Feminist Critical Theory and intersectional critical social theory. This is, therefore, a theoretical study whose methodological development unfolds through the articulation of contributions from different feminist thinkers toward an immanent analysis of reality, used here as the basis for an expanded examination of the issue of women’s incarceration in Brazil. The thesis is divided into two parts, with three sections in the first part and two in the second. In the first section, the author situates Feminist Critical Theory and some of the disputes among intellectuals within this field. The second section discusses concepts from the Feminist Critical Theory of Angela Davis, Judith Butler, and Denise Ferreira da Silva related to struggles for dignity and justice—namely, prison abolitionism, normative frameworks, and raciality—presenting key elements for a situated critique of punitive neoliberalism and the increasing criminalization of women, especially Black women. The third, examines Patricia Hill Collins’s proposition of intersectional critical social theory, focusing on the epistemic resistance made possible through Black feminist thought. In the second part of this doctoral thesis, an intersectional analytical exercise on women’s incarceration is undertaken in two sections: one addressing penal selectivity and vulnerability, which result in the overrepresentation of poor and Black people in Brazilian prisons; and another focused on the challenges of addressing gender-specific needs and reducing rights violations amid the crisis of the Brazilian prison system. The propositions developed in both parts culminate in the defense of the author’s thesis: an intersectional Black Feminist Critical Theory that, in this research, made it possible to analyze how institutional racism and criminalizing frameworks operate in the production of penal vulnerability among the Black population—who constitute the majority within the Brazilian prison system—as well as violations of the fundamental rights of incarcerated women, in contexts where institutional racism and sexism intertwine through racist framings, social inequalities, and interconnected forms of oppression. Tipo: Tese

2026-01-01T00:00:00Z Diniz, Glauco José Rocha http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86502 2026-05-27T14:40:59Z 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

Título: A noção de recusa na história clínica da anorexia: chaves de leitura para o contemporâneo Autor(es): Diniz, Glauco José Rocha Abstract: This research aims to investigate the phenomenon of anorexia and the role played by refusal in its construction. From the methodological approach of the thesis, as a psychoanalytic study, it was possible to identify the determining function of refusal in sustaining the anorexic phenomenon, both through a literature review (gathering terms specifically related to anorexia) and through the place this notion assumed in the writings of psychoanalysts who focused on anorexia in their theoretical formalization efforts. The investigation was divided into three chapters, where we sought to situate the propositions related to understanding anorexia, but also the implications of this understanding for the challenges presented regarding treatment direction. Here, the issue of its connections with the contemporary is also unfolded. The formalization undertaken by such authors (and the place the notion of refusal assumes within it) became even more significant when the DSM V and the corresponding treatment protocols established significant changes in understanding anorexia. Changes that precisely aimed at the term of refusal. Reported up to DSM IV, in DSM V it is omitted and intended to be used "in specific cases" as outlined by the manual. The research path we undertook allows us to support the thesis that the removal of the term produces effects in both the clinic and culture, as this suppression affects what concerns a mark of the subject. Thus, if the notion of refusal allows us to grasp the construction of the anorexic symptom, it is also, at the same time, the theoretical formalization resulting from a listening oriented towards the subject. Refusal is a notion that preserves the subject, indicating their presence even in phenomena approaching death. It is this presence of the subject that appears in understanding the symptom, which can simultaneously provide an ethical direction to the challenges 9 experienced in treatment direction. The subject, still there, marking something singular in the relationship each one establishes with the Other, is, therefore, the index of the ethics that governs both the formalization work carried out by analysts and the listening that sustains their practice. This corroborates the solidarity and, as Pura Cancina proposed, the Borromean structure of the relationships between theory, practice, and clinic. At the end of this thesis, we aim to instill propositions that allow us to affirm that it will be through refusal that the anorexic will be able to make a hole in the Other and redirect their desire. Tipo: Tese

2025-01-01T00:00:00Z Xavier, Natacha Farias http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86413 2026-05-21T20:36:41Z 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

Título: O impacto das redes de suporte social e de cuidado no enfrentamento às violências através dos coletivos de mulheres em Fortaleza - Ceará Autor(es): Xavier, Natacha Farias Abstract: This study stems from concern about the number of women who suffer various forms of violence on a daily basis, whether in their romantic relationships, in their work environment, on the streets, during their leisure time, and, above all, from the unacceptable fact that women die simply because they are women, specifically black, marginalized, and transgender women. According to the 17th Annual Report on Public Violence (FBSP, 2023), the state of Ceará was the sixth most violent in terms of domestic and family violence between 2021 and 2022. Governments and public policies need to act more effectively to protect women, and society needs to rethink the values that sustain gender coloniality, where racism, sexism, and the hierarchization of lives intersect. This historical system imposes subordination on cis and trans women, discredits their knowledge, and delegitimizes their forms of organization, sustaining isolation and silencing. In response, collective experiences affirm practices of solidarity, care, and resistance, in which political subjectivity is constructed on a daily basis. For decolonial and intersectional feminist theorists, in dialogue with Community Psychology, confronting violence happens collectively, horizontally, and dialogically, when subjects analyze their realities, become politically educated, and build networks of solidarity and care. Thus, women's collectives become spaces for mutual recognition and empowerment in the face of gender-based violence. Therefore, we ask the following question: How do women's groups/collectives act in the construction of social support networks and in the processes of political subjectivation to confront gender violence in peripheral contexts of the city of Fortaleza and the Cariri region? Therefore, our general objective is to understand how women's collectives act in the construction of social support networks and in the processes of political subjectivation to confront gender violence in peripheral contexts. For the specific objectives, we have aligned four objectives: 1) To evaluate the processes of violence experienced by women who are members of women's collectives; 2) To identify how the social support networks of women's collectives are organized; 3) To understand the meanings of social support networks in women's collectives based on women's experiences; 4) To understand how awareness-raising processes in women's collectives favor the emergence of political subjects and practices of empowerment in the face of different forms of violence. To achieve these results, we propose a critical feminist qualitative methodology inspired by decolonial and intersectional practices. This process was divided into three stages: first, we mapped women's collectives in the city of Fortaleza, identifying 34; in the second, after accepting participation, I met with members of five groups/collectives and conducted interviews with five representatives in order to bring to light the history of the collective; and, in the third stage, four thematic groups were formed with members of four groups/collectives, totaling 46 women. The interviews were conducted individually, by group. Subsequently, the interviews and thematic groups were systematized and analyzed based on a critical and situated reading, inspired by intersectional and decolonial feminist epistemologies, with the support of Atlas.ti software for organizing the narrative material. The results revealed that confronting gender-based violence and violence against women is not based solely on institutional responses, but is strengthened by social support networks and alliances between women who collectively transform their experiences of pain into political action. The collectives interviewed, Coletivo Vozes, Mulheres que se Amam, Sta. Terezinha do Tancredo Neves, Movimento Nacional das Cidadãs Posithivas/Ce, and Frente de Mulheres do Cariri, are configured as territories of political subjectivation, resistance, and creation, where strengthening, care, solidarity, and coalition are intertwined as practices of maintaining life and producing political subjects. It was observed that, in these spaces, the sharing of experiences of violence operates as a device for opposition consciousness and subjective reorganization. Through practices of mutual listening, circulation of knowledge, and collective action, suffering is reframed as a source of solidarity and mobilization. Women reinvent forms of political care, articulating affections, spiritualities, and community practices that go beyond the limits of state assistance. Concrete coping strategies also emerge, such as support among mothers in contexts of criminalization and poverty, welcoming women living with HIV, and creating safe spaces for coexistence and feminist training. It can be concluded that the experiences of these collectives affirm the centrality of solidarity networks and the construction of alternatives to institutional modes of coping, highlighting that social transformation occurs through relationships and coalitions. Collective strengthening thus reveals itself not only as a response to violence, but as a continuous form of reinvention of life and daily insurgency against the structures of coloniality and oppression. Tipo: Tese

2026-01-01T00:00:00Z Oliveira Neto, José da Silva http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/84836 2026-02-19T14:31:42Z 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

Título: Clínica Histórico-Cultural e processos de cura: um estudo-intervenção sobre as feridas coloniais de homens gays negros brasileiros Autor(es): Oliveira Neto, José da Silva Abstract: Contemporaneity carries with it an inheritance based on social inequality; in this reality, there are people who are valued more and less, producing colonial wounds in the psychic dynamics of those who are valued negatively, which can be observed in the experience of black gay men. The specialized literature points out that because black gay men are the target of racism and homophobia, their mental health situation suffers significant damage, which manifests itself in their conduct in the most diverse forms. On the other hand, black gay men have built strategies to deal with the repercussions of racism and homophobia, including healing processes, which are technologies of self-care and inter-care within the black community. Despite this, it is well known that racism and homophobia produce an effect of non-recognition in the other, which disempowers the ancestral care processes of black gay men for themselves and for each other. In this sense, it is believed that psychotherapeutic intervention, more specifically the Cultural-Historical Clinic, can be an alternative to the depotentialization of the healing processes of black gay men in the face of their colonial wounds, given that the Cultural-Historical Clinic is a therapy that diverges from the idea of the universal human being, present in traditional approaches to psychology. Considering this context, the general aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the Cultural-Historical Clinic and healing processes in black Brazilian gay men. Specifically, it seeks to: I) describe the approximations and distancing between the Cultural-Historical Clinic and the healing processes of black Brazilian gay men; II) understand the possibilities and limits of the Cultural-Historical Clinic for acting on the colonial wounds of black Brazilian gay men; III) analyze the narratives of black Brazilian gay men about their colonial wounds; IV) propose the cultural-historical clinical intervention based on the healing processes of black Brazilian gay men; and V) evaluate the cultural-historical clinical intervention based on the healing processes of black Brazilian gay men. This study is eminently qualitative, more specifically of the action-research type, with complementary descriptive statistics. In order to build the corpus and meet the research objectives, the following tools will be used: I) Autoethnography; II) Field Diary; III) Online psychotherapeutic sessions in the Cultural-Historical Clinic; IV) Self Report Questionnaire (SQR 20); and V) Affective Map Generator Instrument (IGMA). The meanings of the research will be interpreted based on Discourse Analysis and Cultural-Historical Psychology, using ATLAS.ti software version 8. The first study indicated that the developmental experience of black gay men in Brazil is marked by colonial wounds of racism and homophobia, which become incorporated into the individual's personality, producing psychological illness. Building on this scenario, the investigations carried out in the second study pointed out that historical-cultural clinical psychology can constitute a contextualized work approach, helping us to overcome the inaccuracy of traditional, white, and Western categories such as mental health. Subsequently, the third study made the necessary theoretical and epistemological connections between historical-cultural clinical psychology and clinical approaches to working with black and LGBT+ people, showing that Historical-Cultural Psychology, due to its historical and epistemological roots, is appropriate for working with black gay Brazilian men, after all, it is disconnected from the idealism and mechanism present in bourgeois psychologies. In the fourth study, we analyzed the narratives of black gay men and identified that, although the psychological development process of this population is marked by the social inequalities of racism and homophobia, there is room for healing processes, which are connected to community strengthening and emotional development. In the fifth study, it indicated that the historical-cultural clinical model is effective for mediating and strengthening healing processes in black gay Brazilian men, indicating that the proposed theoretical model needed to be revised and expanded and that intervention and clinical management strategies from a historical-cultural perspective are effective for promoting psychological health in black gay Brazilian men who suffer from the psychological repercussions of racism and homophobia. Finally, the research contributed to strengthening a central thesis, namely: from a historical-cultural perspective based on the healing processes of black gay men, healing is the dialectical integration of self-care and mutual care practices taking place in the territory and based both on the availability of healthy mediating resources for psychological development and on the construction of strategies for confronting homophobia and racism. Tipo: Tese

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