O Lugar do psicanalista nas organizações da sociedade civil de assistência às pessoas vivendo com HIV

Abstract

Civil society organizations are private, non-profit institutions that offers services of public interest. Civil society organizations focused on providing assistance to people living with HIV has as target audience people who lives and coexists with the HIV virus, without discrimination of gender, race/ethnicity or religion, and aim to prevent HIV infection, combat prejudice related to being infected by the virus and, mainly, to support people who are already living with HIV, as well as vulnerable groups or groups exposed to its risks. The present work has the objective of producing reflections on how psychoanalysis can be applied in these institutions without losing its specificity, after all, psychoanalysis is guided by its own ethics, the ethics of desire, which aims at what is most important to it, singularity in the subjects and their de-alienation to the Other's desire. How to sustain psychoanalysis ethics within an institution whose main objective is to be the representative of a group of people united by a common identification trait? If the psychoanalyst gets a place in this institution, what are the contributions of psychoanalysis to this organization and to its users? In order to answer this first question, we will consider where is a possible place for the psychoanalyst within the Civil society organization for assistance to people living with HIV, guided by the policy of psychoanalysis, which, roughly speaking, is a kind of extension of the ethics of the psychoanalytic clinic taken to society, to the culture, that is, taking into account the structural lack inherent in the human being, being of language, being a speaker. This lack marks desire and enjoyment, and denounces the impossibility of completeness promised in the communication vehicles, whether with an ideal romanticism, with the gadgets of capitalism and the advances of science. To answer the second question, we will think about HIV and its effects in the light of concepts from psychoanalysis such as the strange, the anguish and the unconscious structured as a language, as stated by Lacan, with an interlocution with concepts from social psychology, the namely, stigma and prejudice.