Contributions for the design of a Nuestramericana psychology

Abstract

The need to rethink the field of psychology arises from the dissatisfactions that the field generates when understanding the reality of Latin America. That is the gap that the field presents between the training processes in psychology and what happens “outside” the academy. The zone of friction that a historical, local, pluriverse psychology can propose, that transcends the universal subjectivity of the field, could present two nodal points: the recovery and historical resignification of other political and social systems that contain diverse subjectivities of our America, and the idea that the past can be seen as the future. In terms of the colonial wound, that allow to heal-incorporate the “other subjectivities” denied-excluded to the field of psychology. The contributions in the construction of a design could begin in the historical recovery, that is, make other stories present that represent other ways of inhabiting the world and that are produced as absent by the unique thought. Faced with the possibility of recovering experiences, experiences, and practices of our regions, the possibility of an autochthonous, pluralist, Raizal socialism appears, which substantially implies starting a process of historical and cultural recovery. Perhaps, from the other histories of our America and the pluriverse ways of thinking and feeling our territories, denied by the absolutism of modern colonial and capitalist science, it is from where the alternatives are organized for a new political order and for the design of psychology committed to our territories and our communities.