A dor psíquica no ethos neoliberal

Abstract

The neoliberal ethos influences all aspects of individual life, shaping society in a disciplinary manner as conceptualized by Foucault in two distinct technologies of power. One of them focuses on the body, producing individualizing effects by manipulating the body as a center of forces to be controlled. The other technology concentrates on life in general, grouping the mass effects characteristic of a population. In this way, society becomes palliative, as observed by Byung-Chul Han, portraying the individual as self-manageable and suppressing expressions of pain associated with moral weakness. Late capitalism promotes the suppression of pain through medicalization, encouraging a positive psychology that anesthetizes, imposing happiness, and restricting negativity. This results in repressed and self-blaming suffering, hindering the understanding of the individual's role in history. Therefore, the study seeks to comprehend the interpretation of psychic pain in the neoliberal context, highlighting its legitimacy and establishing foundations for an emancipatory psychology. With the critical perspective of Martín-Baró, responsible for Liberation Psychology, psychic pain is seen as a phenomenon resulting from systemic oppression in industrial society, explaining the constant state of anesthesia in the contemporary social configuration. The research is based on a literature review exploring Foucauldian concepts of biopower, Byung-Chul Han's society of fatigue, and Ignácio Martín-Baró's liberation psychology.