Corpo, subjetividade e política: o ideário libertário das décadas de 60 e 70 em uma revista de jornalismo da psicologia

Abstract

The research leans over the contrivances of the years 60 and 70 of the past century, inquiring into how they echoed and revealed themselves in the Brazilian context, mostly in a definite place of the psi field much influenced by the libertarian and anti-authoritarian ideas which reverberated during that period. Aiming this, I took the psychology magazine Rádice as an object of research. Rádice was an alternative publication which was written mostly by recently graduated psychologists, psychology students and journalists, and circulated from 1976 to 1981. Among many subjects, Rádice approached issues related to madness, sexuality, psychoanalysis, family relationships and ecology. Through the analysis of this object, my interest is to get a better understanding of how Brazilian psychology got politicized in the years 70, assuming an activist posture, militating on behalf of various causes, like the opposition to military dictatorship, fight against the psychiatric asylum and the discussion about sexual disrepression and liberation of customs. At the same time, the process of individual change starts to be conceived as the only way to change society, turning subjectivity into a political ground. I intend to investigate, therefore, a moment of a meeting between politics, subjectivity and body, and the coming forth of a new political practice which withdraws from the great issues and from the Marxist revolutionary doctrine and which worries itself with daily life, with the questioning of habits, behaviors and forms of social relationship.