Psychoanalysis, history, magic and language: insurgences of ways of existing

Abstract

This present study tailors its investigative lines in the thresholds between magic, language and psychology. We take fragments of the psychoanalytic theory and the thoughts of Walter Benjamin about the history of how opening slits of a scientific progress speech; this aligned with an immense murmur of biological determinism about the human experience related to psychological suffering, excluding the magical possibilities of language and meeting. We hear on the autistic condition and on the hearing voices condition, as two manifestations of the human experience that in older times were connected to magic and today as an illness, whose unique experiences are dissolved in biomedical discourse. In this way, we unfold psychoanalytical contributions in order to think about the autonomy and emancipation of people and communities in the face of the end of history.