The mental health for all that border the malaise of each one: the resistance of psychoanalysis to biopolitical strategies in expanded psychiatry

Abstract

The discourses in expanded psychiatry and its biopolitical project of management of nonpathological behaviors today occupy a hegemonic place in the problematization of psychic suffering and modes of subjectivation. Thus, we objectify, through the introduction of a discussion on the ethical dimension in Psychoanalysis, point to a position of resistance, suggesting a different way of this established by the biopoder, to think about our relationship with psychic suffering today. We are constituted as a conceptual theoretical study guided by the genealogical perspective of Michel Foucault. Composed of a set of methodological principles for the analysis of the forms of the exercise of power, the genealogy enables us to grasp the medicalization of non-pathological sufferings and behaviors and the consequent psychiatric concern for small deviations and failures as a biopolitical strategy. The discourse of expansion of psychiatry is the product of a history crossed by power relations essential to the fabrication of contemporary subjectivity. Absolutely, there is only power because there is possibility of resistance. For this reason, we infer from psychoanalysis that psychic suffering constitutes an antipower of individuals in the face of psychiatric power and its normalizing process.

Keywords

• Psiquiatria ampliada. Biopolítica. Sofrimento psíquico. Subjetividade. Psicanálise.