ABSTRACT:
This paper aimed to use psychoanalysis as a hermeneutic tool to elucidate two divergent strands of thought within critical thinking about colonialism. The research strategy proposed aims to make psychoanalysis operate as a source from which two groups are structured, represented in this work by, on the one hand, Walter D. Mignolo and, on the other, Edward W. Said and Gayatri C. Spivak. The appropriation these authors made of psychoanalysis will allow us to guide our reading in detecting the way they understand the colonizer/colonized correlation, adopting or refusing a geopolitical anchoring as a disjunctive condition between these categories/positions.
Keywords:
Postcolonialism; Decoloniality; Psychoanalysis and Postcolonialism; Psychoanalysis and Decoloniality