Abacates, Pinhões e Bergamotas: por uma esquizoanálise situada

Abstract

This article proposes a critical reflection about the limits of the schizoanalytic perspective when applied to Brazilian territorialities, in the context of individual or collective clinical practices. Although schizoanalysis offers powerful tools for the deconstruction of normative models of subjectivation, it does not, in itself, constitute a decolonial approach, mainly due to the limits of its westernized construction and foundation in hegemonic epistemes. Through this critical field, we propose to reflect on possible compositions between this perspective and the decolonial archive, situating its potentials to the needs of the Brazilian territory in its pluriversality. We thus propose a conceptual twist that allows schizoanalysis to bear fruit through three material operators: the avocado, which shifts hegemonic clinical practice through rhythms of ripening; the pine nut (pinhão), a common food that produces resistances; and the tangerine (bergamota), shared among women in urban occupations as a political gesture. These fruits, far from being mere metaphors, are local theorists that demand a form of listening rooted in the pluriversality of the territories. We conclude that these frutificações may offer clues for a nomadic clinic that rejects universality in favor of a situated schizoanalysis, where care is made in the time of maturation, resistance, and collective ethics.