Psicanálise e racismo: o estranhamento do corpo negro a partir da obra “A cor do inconsciente”, de Isildinha Baptista Nogueira

Abstract

This study draws on Isildinha Baptista Nogueira’s work *The Color of the Unconscious*, seeking to understand the psychological effects of racialization on subjective constitution. To this end, it highlights the theoretical connection with Freud’s concept of the “uncanny” (Das Unheimliche) to understand the experiences of estrangement linked to the image of the Black body. The specific objectives were: 1) To present the foundation of the body in psychoanalysis through the theoretical contributions of Isildinha Baptista Nogueira; 2) To discuss identifications related to the black body based on the work of Isildinha Nogueira, observing how the author works with the notion of “Unheimliche” in the constitution of the body image and in identifications intersected by racism; 3) To promote a reflection on how the estrangement of one’s own body articulates with the processes of dehumanization experienced in relation to otherness, based on Nogueira’s theoretical contributions. This is a theoretical study in psychoanalysis, grounded in a review of the works of the aforementioned authors. It is based on Nogueira’s contributions regarding the symbolic and imaginary dimensions of the Black body in her dialogue with Jacques Lacan, Françoise Dolto, and Mahmoud Sami-Ali. Subsequently, it seeks to deepen discussions on the topic through the contributions of Frantz Omar Fanon and Neusa Santos Souza. In this way, the study contributes to the debate between psychoanalysis and racism, emphasizing the effects of dehumanization on Black subjectivities. It is considered that listening to the psychological suffering of Black subjects requires psychoanalysis to engage with the effects of structural racism and the forms of exclusion inscribed in bodies. The dissertation seeks to contribute to the theoretical-critical field that recognizes the incidence of racism in clinical practice and psychoanalytic theory.