In what ways can a psychoanalyst work with branquitude?

Abstract

The psychoanalysis proposed by Freud and the theoretical advances of Lacan provide us with tools to reflect on issues so present in the Brazilian society, such as the branquitude pact, a concept by psychologist Cida Bento, but also to support a permanent training that is relevant to our time. The analytic act is what, by contingency, establishes the presence of the analyst as a logical function within a discourse, the discourse of the analyst. There is an incompatibility between  the position of analyst and a narcissistic position of jouissance that, being so socially recognized, becomes invisible. Precisely because the racialization of the white person (or socially perceived as such) is an invisible issue, I question whether it is possible to be aware of this without the analyst's own racial condition having been addressed and traversed in their own analysis. It is urgent to broaden the scope of our listening and to ensure an ethical and well-oriented training for current and future psychoanalysts.