ABSTRACT
The present study sought to investigate, in the perspective of psychoanalytic clinic, a case study permeated by the specificities of the contexts of social urgency in the field of migration. Social urgency entails situations in which the lack of material conditions of a portion of people joins discourses that place the subject in positions of objectification, submission to the other in the social bond, therefore in situations of discursive helplessness (Rosa, 2016). The theoretical and clinical elaborations are based on the clinical experience that supported the construction of the clinical case of a child and their parents, Bolivians, marked by the consequences of slave labor and the child’s autism diagnosis. Based on the movements arising from this case, we present the positions taken by the psychoanalyst facing a context in which the socio-political aspects of suffering articulate with situations of forced migration. This path converges in the effort to locate new approaches and psychoanalytic devices, which takes into account the subject position in the social bond, proposing significant changes vis-à-vis the demands addressed to the psychoanalytic clinic by institutional and social urgency contexts. In addition, we propose the notion of transferential network, as an instrument that guides the psychoanalyst’s work with interinstitutional contacts, with professionals from other areas and with those who are in situations of social urgency.
Keywords:
Psychoanalysis; immigration; politics