Abstract:
This paper aims to establish a critical reflection on the use of the psychoanalytic concept of reparation by the Transitional Justice agenda in Brazil. Through a recovery of the genesis of the concept of reparation in psychoanalysis, the guiding principle of reparation in relation to the concept of trauma in Freud and in Ferenczi is first taken up, to shed light on Klein and the tradition of post-Kleinism that would consecrate the concept of reparation in psychoanalysis, making a difference in relation to the perspective of irreparability in Lacan. Subsequently, it discusses the ways in which the reparatory dimension is intended for history, insofar as the social recognition of the traumatic experience is made possible by the function of testimony, the expedient par excellence of criticism of revisionism. Finally, it is concluded by ordaining elements for the proposal of psychic reparation in the Brazilian Transitional Justice according to the psychoanalytic legacy, considering the importance of the assimilation of the role of the object in psychoanalysis in the different matrices that this reflection inspires with regard to the understanding of the analytical treatment.
Keywords:
Reparation; Psychoanalysis; Transition; History; Brazil