Quando o fio da escuta tremula: divagações sobre as invenções cotidianas do fazer clínico em tempos pandêmicos

Abstract

The research, from which this dissertation emerges, aimed to listen to the memories of clinical psychologists who, during the COVID-19 pandemic, transitioned to providing online or remote therapy, relying on the potential creation of spaces for sharing experiences that challenged certain clinical practices. In an attempt to find porosity amidst crystallizations and reactive rigidity resulting from the confrontations with the new realities that the virus exposed us to, the study sought to gather news about how listening practices were shaken by the Pandemic-Event and its untimely nature. Supported by the work on memory, imagery, and montage inspired by Benjamin, in dialogue with the notions of self-care by Michel Foucault and collective processes of singularization by Deleuze and Guattari, this study problematized contemporary processes of subjectivation and their effects on clinical practice in the Brazilian pandemic context. The memory that was sought to be recovered, through attentive listening, a practice closely resembling that which occurs in the clinical encounter, draws inspiration from craftsmanship and openness to the encounter with the other, in its potency for creative and unforeseen action. In a writing proposal not intended to explain or inventory something for posterity, but aimed to create a rupture in the present so that life could breathe, nourish itself anew, and flourish. Written in a journey that, amidst the pains and forgetfulness of our time, sought to be realized as a rite of passage and an act of resistance.