Interview with Taiasmin Ohnmacht

Abstract

In this edition of the SIG Revista de Psicanálise, we feature Taiasmin Ohnmacht as our interviewee. A writer, psychoanalyst, and psychologist, Taiasmin is the author of a series of books that move between literature and theoretical production. In her work, she offers powerful reflections on ethnic-racial relations, inviting the reader to think critically about how society is organized through a set of rules that traverse us and seek to standardize and universalize discourses and cultures. This constitutes a singular grammar that hierarchizes, excludes, and inflicts violence, as she develops in her book Também existem os tambores: outras gramáticas entre racialidade e psicanálise. In this interview, Taiasmin discusses her educational trajectory, highlighting the absence of the theme of raciality in this process, which reveals the historical lack of debate on the subject and on racial policies. The author also reflects on intervention at the level of social discourse, linking it to the notions of structural and institutional racism and outlining fundamental ethical implications for psychoanalytic practice itself.