Resumen de Mapping out the subject of the Brazilian social psychology in the production of the national association of research and post-graduate studies in psychology

Marcos Adegas de Azambuja, Carolina dos Reis, Neuza Maria de Fátima Guareschi, Simone Maria Hüning

• The following paper aims at problematizing the Brazilian Social Psychology and its knowledge production, based on the registers of the Work Group (WG) of the National Association of Research and Post-Graduation in Psychology (ANPEPP), between 1988 to 2010. Using Michel Foucault’s archeo-genealogical perspective and the contributions by Ian Hacking about the historical ontology of subjects, we analyzed the technologies of power and knowledge which are shaped in the different disciplines of Social Psychology and which, with a scientific legitimacy, emancipate subjects. The different types of knowledge relative to Social Psychology in the history of the ANPEPP’s WGs contribute to the constitution of categories and psychological classifications which objectivize subjects. We seek to accentuate the productive character of Social Psychology; that is, the very criticisms and problematizations related to psychological and social concepts comprise a set of practices and regimes of truth about the subject of Social Psychology.