THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE POWER TO BE AFFECTED: SUBJECT AND FREEDOM FROM THE WORK IN THE OFFICE ON THE STREET - A VYGOTSKIAN VIEWPOINT
Consulting room on the street; Occupational health; Vygotsky; Spinoza; Freedom.
This thesis seeks to understand about the relationships that are established between the affective life of professionals of the Office on the street (service of the Primary Care of the SUS focused on the care of the homeless population) and the characteristics of the related work activities. We will think of this relationship between activity and affection of these professionals as a privileged perspective to think about technical-operative and ethical-political aspects of these professionals of a Brazilian social policy. Being an exploratory research in Psychology, we ended up carrying out an important work of rescuing the Vygotskian methodological proposals and, what became another center of the research, the notions of Vygotskian subject and freedom through the Spinozan concept of power or potency of being affected. In this sense, we believe we have managed to organize some of his proposals and contribute to the restoration of developmental psychology by this revolutionary psychologist. It was with such a framework that, through a national questionnaire and two virtual meetings with people who have already worked in the Office on the street, we sought to provide elements about the affective, technical-operative and ethical-political life of these professionals. What seems possible to consider from what we have seen is that these professionals live an important process of dispute over the ways in which care should be exercised and that, given the forms of public management and employment bond, the professionals most committed to a care focused on freedom end up sicker or, as they say, "gagged." We perceive, in this sense, an important dispute between a knowledge that perceives the other in its entirety, respecting and learning from the difference, seeking a care beyond the curative aspect, but that can strengthen the population in street situation as a political subject. This perspective, which we approach to an expanded clinic, is opposed and suffocated by a more mechanistic and bureaucratized perspective, marked by an outpatient and curative clinic. Such a perspective, as we have seen, has come with more force in this service recently and has been, little by little, erasing the old history of the ways of working for a broader and more libertarian care.