Intersectionality: psychoanalysts black women’s contribution to the discussion

Abstract

In an intersectional approach that crosses issues of race, gender and social class, this article aims to present the ethical orientation followed by researchs in psychoanalysis carried out in the Graduate Program in Psychology at UFF. We will start the text explaining the theoretical and ethical guidelines that drive us in the articulation between clinic and politics, based on the teaching of Freud and Lacan, to continue with the contributions to the theme made by some black and female psychoanalysts. Finally, we bring the discussion about intersectionality, indicating how the reading of Freud under the lens of Lacan undoes the confusion between the individual and the subject in their articulation with the Other, and rejects the recurrent criticism directed at psychoanalysts of undertaking an individualist and bourgeois practice.