Bebê como método : psicanálise, neoliberalismo e produção de subjetividade
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2026-02-09
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Rosi, Fernanda Stange
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Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
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This thesis adopts “Baby as Method,” inspired by Child as Method by Erica Burman (2025), to read and interrogate the inscription of psychoanalysis within the practices of subjectivation in modernity. The research is organized around four figurations that serve as critical operators to examine the theoretical and ethico-political displacements of psychoanalysis through the lens of the clinic with babies: Psychogenetic Baby, a trope that introduces psychoanalysis as a theory that, since its emergence, has led us to the terrain of childhood, revealing its traces in psychic constitution as testimony to the incidence of the Unconscious. Freud is understood not only to have enabled the formulation of a properly infantile psychopathological field but also to have inaugurated a new proposal for science. The clinic with children—and especially with babies— places tension on the psychoanalytic method, challenging its epistemological limits in a constant search for validation. Misunderstood Baby situates Lacan’s critique of the loss of theoretical specificity and ethical radicality promoted by certain post-Freudians, defining the status of the subject as an effect of language and rescuing the subversion promoted by psychoanalytic discourse as the privileged way to position the subject in relation to knowledge and truth. Neuroplastic Baby analyzes the incidence of neoliberal rationality and the neurodiscourse in contemporary readings of childhood. It problematizes how cerebralist logic, supported by the notion of neurodevelopment, reconfigures the idea of the subject and introduces the normative ideal of performance, culminating in the centrality of autism as a paradigmatic diagnosis. The thesis considers the not-all neurological status of this clinical structure and the ambiguous position of psychoanalysis in face of the “autism industry,” ranging from rejection to conciliation. Automaton Baby, in turn, interrogates the permeation of neurodiscourse in psychic constitution and early childhood care practices. It shows how the valorization of the “competent,” active, and autonomous baby ends up becoming a form of objectification and control. This figuration reveals the capture of psychoanalysis by neurodevelopmentalist and risk-prevention logics and symbolizes, thus, the neoliberal ideal of premature autonomy and the erasure of the bond with the Other through the overvaluation of expert knowledge about subjectivity. Finally, the last chapter proposes an inversion of the neoliberal logic that captures suffering and subjectivity under normalization criteria. By considering autism as a pathology of the social, it demonstrates how the shadow of this clinical picture extends to babies (and perhaps to fetuses) and definitively exposes an ideal of childhood, a mode of bonding, and a form of suffering typical of our times. Understanding that each psychoanalyst’s choice regarding the use of theory and its modes of transmission must be regarded as a political act, this work values the wager on the subject of the unconscious as that which escapes scientistic ambition and nosographic categorization. Sustaining the discussion on the decoloniality and demedicalization of childhoods will require recovering the subversive character of psychoanalysis, repositioning it in its extimate condition
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Psicanálise , Neoliberalismo , Subjetividade , Bebês , Autismo , Psychoanalysis , Neoliberalism , Subjectivity , Babies , Autism