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The reading laboratory as a “field” for the cultivation and maintenance of mental health in the context of neoliberalism

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This article aims to reflect on the psychic illness of the subject in the context of neoliberalism, which is a structuring force (Bourdieu) that acts on their subjectivity, drawing it from a business logic, guided by maximum productivity, Cartesian rationality and devaluation of affections, resulting in the mental illness and psychic suffering of this subject. To this end, an experience with literary reading developed collectively via the Reading Laboratory is presented as for na intervention to demobilize these structuring structures.

Key words:
Neoliberalism; cartesian rationality; mental health; literature

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