Do encontro entre psicologia e política: uma análise das (des)articulações discursivas nas produções acadêmicas nacionais

Abstract

Based on the recognition of a growing entanglement between psychological knowledge and political dynamics in the contemporary context, this tesis is dedicated to exploring how psychological discourse has operated as a privileged field in the production of subjectivities aligned with governmental rationalities. Accordingly, this study aims to map and analyze the ways in which psychological discourses are articulated with political dynamics within the Brazilian academic field. It is grounded in the hypothesis that the interpenetration between psychology and politics, as manifested in scientific productions, constitutes a grammar of veridiction that mobilizes specific forms of life conduct and subjectivity production. The analysis focuses on two major national academic journals: Psicologia & Sociedade and Psicologia Política, whose publications were taken as a discursive archive based on their analytical, performative, and historical potentialities. The choice of these sources is justified by both their institutional consolidation and their argumentative density in addressing ethical-political issues within the field of psychology. Anchored in a theoretical-methodological approach inspired by the thought of Michel Foucault and mediated by the notion of the archive, the analysis is organized around three central axes: the constitution of the field of Political Psychology as an effect of epistemic, ethical, and institutional disputes; the modes of thematization and performativity of the political in psychological discourses; and the processes of subjectivity production within these discourses, especially in the context of governmental dispositifs. It is argued that psychological discourses, by claiming authority over ways of being and acting in the world, establish regimes of truth that reshape subjective experience and mold the contours of the social. In this sense, the field of Political Psychology emerges as a strategic operator articulating knowledge and power, shifting the focus of traditional psychology toward practices implicated in the management of life and the constitution of the political subject. It is concluded, therefore, that the diffusion of psychological discursivity within Brazilian academic production not only reflects but also institutes specific political rationalities, contributing to the shaping of a contemporary subjectivity anchored in a psi-normative matrix, whose regulatory force impacts individuals’ ways of living, feeling, and acting.