Esferologia e o não-lugar: pelo encontro humano antes do encontro psiquiátrico

Abstract

How do we come into the world, and how do we convince ourselves of the convenience of settling within it and leading a life? Under what conditions does a human being flourish and come into the world, or fail and remain trapped in infernal spaces? And how do these questions relate to a problem that can be addressed by psychology, specifically in the clinical field, where we increasingly observe a practice that tends to bend to theory rather than prioritizing the subject, adhering, above all, to a primacy of care? This work aimed to answer these questions by presenting the experience of suffering of someone who could not convince themselves of the advantages of being born but, on the contrary, sees their own birth as an inconvenience. We sought to understand the complex dimensions of this existential experience, going beyond superficial and reductionist diagnostic reasoning, analyzing it through a philosophical, psychological, and anthropological lens, explicating the dimensions of this existential experience and thematizing it within an aesthetic character constructed based on the accounts and testimonies of the Brazilian author Juliano Garcia Pessanha. Inspired by Pessanha's reflections in conjunction with Peter Sloterdijk, we investigated the formative processes of Self construction and entry into the world, as well as the disjunctions that can lead to a state of existential rupture in this process. In addition to presenting the articulations made by Juliano Pessanha with the German philosopher, the text also bridges the gap that the Brazilian philosopher creates between (micro)spherology in Sloterdijk and the psychoanalysis of Donald Winnicott, venturing contributions to contemporary clinical practice in interventions for such cases. This work, therefore, takes into account that the way of being affected differs from subject to subject, and the repertoire of feelings we have is an inheritance from our history and how we were welcomed into the world. Therefore, we believe that understanding how we learned to feel in our early experiences can help understand and improve our way of reacting to life in its occurrence.