Interview with Fabiana Rousseaux

Abstract

The topic of this edition is "Psychoanalysis, Democracy and Rememoration". We have recently seen movements in the political field that have reignited the dispute over the memory of military regimes that have been alarmingly exalted. Fights that have never ceased have been misrepresented with extremist aims that call us to reflect on truth, memory, and justice, as they put democracy at risk. This year, 2024, Brazil celebrates the 60th anniversary of the civil-military coup. Given this, we understand that psychoanalysis has an important political role in rememoration, witnessing, and sustaining alterity, because cultural movements affect the subject’s psyche. For this reason, we invited the psychoanalyst Fabiana Rousseaux for a provocative interview conducted by the Testimony and Action Collective.