Abstract:
This article proposes to think the implementation of the Clinic of Testimony project as a pioneering public policy in the field of psychic reparation to those affected by the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship. Initially, we sought to justify the pertinence of the clinical / political methodology employed throughout the project, based on a critical review of the symptomatic effects of the extorted reconciliation, conveyed through the notion of amnesty in Brazil. To that end, we propose that, in addition to the therapy offered, a policy of psychic reparation presupposes a socio-political context from which the normative bases themselves and the meanings of what it means to be a victim of State violence are modulated. In this sense, we will perform a review of psychoanalytic operators and their political uses in two different contexts: the German reparation policy of the Shoah and the American veterans of the Vietnam War. Finally, we will look at the experience of the clinical device witness group as a clinical-political pathway in the sphere of reparation policies.
Keywords:
Testimony; Psychic Reparation; Mourning; Trauma