RAP as an elaboration of the trauma of being Black in Brazil
Negritude. Trauma. Subjectivation. Psychoanalysis
The traumatized subject by their condition of being a speaker experiences other traumatic experiences throughout life due to their fragility in light of the external world (Freud, 1930). Social relationships can provoke situations that cause suffering to the subject and leave deletable marks on their process of subjectivation, with racism being one of these traumas. Becoming black is a traumatic experience even today, the subjective sequelae of slavery are permanent. The names given to black people cause a feeling of rejection of their own image, naturalizing cultural, social, and physical self-extinction. In view of this, this dissertation analyzed ten RAP lyrics within the theoretical framework of psychoanalysis to investigate in what extent RAP promotes possibilities for black subjects to write themselves - escrevivência - that helps them elaborate on the trauma of being black in Brazil. Concluding that the hip-hop movement brings forth a subject capable of sustaining their existence despite the social trauma, the racism.