Freedom and Dignity: Addressing Prejudices That Shape Institutions

This paper includes some vignettes and the conceptual elaborations of these different works in territories where speech (words, talks,…) is not facilitated. We refer to spaces where freedom is kidnapped, where pain and lack of dignity have been installed. In the development of the work we present vignettes that refer to the different territories in which we work, linking there the damaged freedom in the community as the inner freedom of the analyst to be able to think. The authors are a group made up of psychoanalysts from various Latin American, polyphonic, multicultural and interdisciplinary teams, who work in the field (hospitals, schools, prisons) and form part of a network of community experiences and knowledge construction without borders. We support a collective work that aims to seek greater equity in our social systems. Together with other professionals, we watch over the fulfilment of human rights, we reconstruct collective memories, we work to identify and transform, in the community and in ourselves, the way of thinking and feeling because of the effects of colonisation, discrimination, racism and prejudice. We aim to rescue and promote the visibility of Latin American psychoanalytic thought in community work. We seek to listen to the original groups, to the colonised and enslaved, and to discover the myths and beliefs that account for the universals that Freud so masterfully found in the Greek tragedies; considering the cultural multiplicity and ideo-diversity of the Latin American continent.