Política sensível do cuidado de si na travessia dos afetos: por uma saúde inventiva

Abstract

The cartographies of the life in the university emerge from the need for a body that sets out to walk in the latitude of academic experiences, in the longitude of what enhances them, wandering on the epidermal surface of (psychic) illness, which has been increasing significantly in recent years. This resurgence has been observed by the researcher since she joined the institution as a psychologist in the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs (PRAE) at the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel) in 2010. She carefully explores the possible impacts that expansion policies and new ways of entering higher education have on ways of existing, on the ground of the nuances created by the differences resulting from these new forms of admission. She goes through some studies on the mental health of university students, which outline symptoms of anxiety and depression as predominant, favoring the poor academic performance and the exclusion of their bodies. Thus, when they sink into a new educational environment, the student often finds themselves helpless and invisible in what they feel, not only sufficing to passively adapt to institutional norms, but also requiring to be actively participants in the process of their education. In this sense, this research articulates self-care (Foucauldian) as a practice of freedom, which enables an aesthetic of existence as a work of art (Nietzschean), not for the beautiful form, but for beautiful ways of thinking and feeling in composition (Spinozist) through what educational agents affect and are affected by and, in action, are able to know and transform themselves and their relations to the world. By problematizing health as a politically relevant object for thinking about clinical practices in the academic ambience, the researcher perceives student immobility attending in classrooms, as well as teachers being compelled to settle the emotional difficulties that they trigger. Therefore, the aim of this Thesis is: To map the lines of sensitivities and subjectivations of life at university in order to extract from them conditions of possibility for thinking about one clinic in composition with Self-Car in the Crossing of Affections, with a view to one Inventive Health. Insofar as this research intention calls for the monitoring of processes, the cartographic procedure is adopted along Deleuze-Guattarian lines. Thus, the methodological design is based on the trilogy paths-affections-being, in which the power of encounters is at work, both in the traces left by the escrileituras (writreadings) of students who took part in the author’s dissertation (OSORIO, 2016), and in the sayings&writings undertaken, above all, through the letters written by the participants in this thesis. In order to investigate the strengths and weaknesses that influence students to complete their degree, the researcher held a face-to-face meeting with graduating students (2022/1), PRAE scholarship grantees, and virtually completed an inventory of their mental health condition. As life at university is made up of relationships, the research included teaching staff, by two face-to-face meetings, to, thus, draw up a common plan with the problematic field. The lines of writing in this work form a rhizome with the lines of vulnerabilities in the midst of academic life, which require lines of self-invention in student kaleidoscopic subjectivations, teacher metamorphoses, and practices of the self. In compositions with philosophies, psychoanalysis and the arts, the lines also musicalize experiments that call for a bricoleur movement in ritornellos, in an attempt to distance oneself from normative thinking. Thus, the following thesis is put forward: The opening of collective spaces at university can, through meetings, summon its agents to an inventive health that walks in the midst of the work of a life, in the composition of singular ways of being, sculpting in self-care, knowledge: More powerful affection! In this sense, health, care, and affective knowledge trigger ethics in a micropolitical gesture and map out a Moebius Clinic.