As early as 1922, psychoanalysis had a significant presence in the art world in Brazil, being a part of the debates of the Week of Modern Art in São Paulo, for instance. The investigation of the contemporary ramifications of this history and of presence of psychoanalysis in the city and its culture is crucial here. We will focus on sites and collectives occupied with reinventing forms and functions of psychoanalysis. Such efforts are present in the case of the ‘psychoanalysis in the street’ [psicanálise na rua] movement, which has grown in recent years. In particular, we are interested on collectives that have an agenda around testimony and political trauma, forging spaces for collective working-through of state violence and the elaboration of other possibilities of living together.
