Aesthetics of the self and self-regulation: a genealogy vision of the health care

• Grant number: 14/23661-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: March 14, 2015
• End date: June 13, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Fundamentals and Assessments in Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Hélio Rebello Cardoso Júnior
• Grantee: Yasmin Aparecida Cassetari da Silva
• Supervisor: Marta Sofia Ferreira Faustino
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
• Associated to the scholarship: 13/11038-9 - Use of pleasure as body control: confrontation between Foucaultian concept of biopower and the process of armoring of the ego in W. Reich's theory, BP.IC

Abstract

This project aims to draw upon the considerations of Friedrich Nietzsche and Foucault, what we might call a "genealogy" of the practice of health care. With the use of two theoretical points arising from Reichian and Foucaultian studies - the aesthetics of the self and the process of self-regulation - depart from the assumptions of therapeutic intervention as a way of perpetuating control over the uses of the delights difficult, using standard practices and resistance to existing processes of subjectivity in contemporary. Taking these devices as subjectivizing practices, we intend to develop this project stage, the theoretical considerations that allow interface between Reich, Foucault and Nietzsche regarding provision of therapy and health care. (AU)