Testimony Clinic and trauma: State violence in Brazilian civil-military dictatorship

• Autor(a) principal: Passoni, Maria Fernanda dos Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Tosta, Rosa Maria
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia Revista (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/psicorevista/article/view/50970
• topic: testemunho; trauma; espaço potencial; tortura; violência de Estado; testimonio; trauma; violencia de Estado; espacio potencial; tortura; testimony; trauma; State violence; potential space; torture

During the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship (1964-1985), Human Rights were systematically violated by the State, inflicting fear and silence on the country’s citizens. Victims of violence did not have a social space that legitimized the reality and suffering of their experiences. In 2012, the project Clinicas do Testemunho, (Testimony Clinic) was launched, working with the psychological reparation of these victims. Studying the specificities of State violence trauma and political torture, and also the concepts of Potential Space and testimony, this article aims to establish a dialogue between these concepts and the work developed by the Clinicas do Testemunho to understand how this work could take place in practice. This is a theoretical study based on Psychoanalysis that concludes that the testimony of those who witnessed it all is a powerful tool to work with trauma. Discussing the topic is also political, reclaiming history, memory, and truth.