Abstract
This article reflects upon the function of a psychoanalytically oriented listening in a context where the demand for help must be translated into a juridical language. This reflection is based on an experience of a practical curricular training of students from the last year of Psychology undergraduate course at the Federal University of Mato Grosso (Brazil) at the public defender’s office. Given that the goal of the public defender’s office is to ensure the rights of the citizens, this article works on the hypothesis that behind these demands for help there are conflicts of interests which highlights the vulnerability from the ones asking for state assistance to deal with troubles resulted from their (mis)matches with alterity. This hypothesis justifies the psychoanalytical ideas set in motion in this article. The practice of these Psychology students, that elicits an enunciation flow of the conflict, seems to be the opposite of the practice by juridical system operators, who need to translate the conflict into juridical and objective terms. Nonetheless, the experience has been indicating that a psychoanalytically oriented listening, when it comes to promote the circulation of the speech, is capable to work towards the emergence of a subject responsible for its own situation in such a way that the technical-juridical solution given to these kinds of conflicts can operate citizenship effects.
Legal Process; Psychoanalysis; Responsibility