Subjectivity and Coloniality: Historical Alliances that Perpetuate Oppressions

Abstract

What is the place of the relationship between subjectivity and coloniality in psychoanalytic training? With whom do we think or whom do we read? From what place? What movements hide this formation? These are some of the questions that serve as a starting point to reflect on the link between psychoanalysis and Latin American philosophy. This connection allows us to open new questions about the object of study of psychoanalysis: the subject/subjectivities. The general objective that runs through these pages has to do with investigating the contributions that decolonial philosophy can make to the critique of the ideas of subject/subjectivity carried out from group psychoanalysis, understanding that the idea of the subject could also be criticized from decoloniality as a modern/colonial notion —which is installed in the training core of psychology professionals—. The importance of this journey allows us to notice some of the consequences of thinking about the subject/subjectivities in a Eurocentric way, which reproduces and feeds totalizations that generate discomfort on the basis of avoiding the exploitations and classifications that have been taking place since before the expansion of the capitalism, precisely since the 16th century, and that has been imposing places to occupy according to interrelated variables of class, gender and race.