Abstract
The field of psychology produces knowledge and discourses that guide public policies and alter or consolidate the social place attributed to the subject. This article considers that there are modalities of political management, control, and exploitation which include in their own strategy of domination promoting the experience of suffering, whether comprising anguish, guilt, shame or social humiliation. In view of this premise, we formulate the vicissitudes and specificities of listening to socio-political suffering arising from socially disqualified positions due to economic, racial, cultural, religious and gender factors, among others. The clinical vicissitude that will guide us will be the silencing derived from this suffering. The clinical listening to subjects under discursive helplessness is anchored on the observation that sociopolitical suffering takes the subject out of his or her place of speech, promoting narcissistic shock and the emergence of the traumatic dimension - a diagnostic issue that should be considered - and raising a possible conflict of loyalties regarding the psychoanalyst’s social pact that can generate his or her resistance to listening. These clinical considerations would not be possible without overcoming a dichotomy and a repression: the question of politics in psychoanalysis. Such conceptions suppose rethinking tactical, strategic and ethical dimensions in psychoanalytic clinical care. We will approach the tricks of power that produce the discursive helplessness and the traumatic dimension, finally reaching some considerations about the treatment to be given to socio-political suffering and the specifics of listening in these contexts.
Keywords:
Suffering; Discursive Helplessness; Silencing; Traumatic; Psychoanalysis