Abstract:
The article proposes to approach the path chosen by the Brazilian state when making the transition from the civil - military dictatorship (1964–1985) to a constitutional democracy, focusing on the reparative practices adopted until it constituted the project responsible for providing psychic reparation, the Clínicas do Testemunho. The methodological path chosen was the dialectic, since it allows us to understand the historical process in question. To carry out the research we adopt the following technical procedures: bibliographical and documentary research. Our approach is composed of four moments. Initially we drew reflections on the dictatorial repression constructing the scenario. Then we began to address how the military government began the transitional process and what paths, possibilities and spaces were taken, so those affected and the society have their effective human rights respected. Finally, we went to address the Clínicas do Testemunho, Porto Alegre headquarters, as a reparatory project that seeks to meet individual – centered on the figures of the affected-, and collective – related to the society as a whole, which emphasized this authoritarian past- demands. Here we approach socio-individual trauma as something that impacts this political clinic performed after a long time, and we propose to think how this affects and how important this project that focuses on individuals, their experiences and their testimonies is. Thus, we conclude that Clínicas acts as a device of reparation that problematizes authoritarian inheritances and offers a paradigm of care for those affected, in which the reception and listening are key pieces to respect otherness.
Keywords:
Civil-Military Dictatorship; Witness; Memory; Psychic Reparation; Political Clinic