"The day did not dawn"

a cartography of the hill

Abstract

We bring reflections from a work experience carried out by a group of psychoanalysts in the Vila do Sahy community, located in São Sebastião, on the north coast of São Paulo, a territory with the highest number of deaths in the state of São Paulo as a result of the rains at the beginning of 2023. The event, named by residents as a "crime-tragedy", remains present to this day. The Trançar com Comunidades Beiradeiras project asks what psychoanalysis can do in circumstances of environmental disasters – which, as a result of climate change, are becoming more frequent. The work is in partnership with the Laboratories: Psychoanalysis, Society and Politics (PSOPOL) and Psychoanalysis, Health and Institutions (LABPSI) at IPUSP-SP. The objective of this writing is to amplify the testimony of survivors of this violent event and problematize the psychoanalyst's position in the face of the vicissitudes of collective trauma and its possibilities for elaboration, also collective. Our work direction aims to move from the community's complaint to a coordinated demand to the State and recognition of the processes of meaning between inhabitants and territory. Methodologically, we base our position as participating researchers, via affective cartography as a device. Finally, the text develops reflections on the field experience, articulating above all the notion of trauma and other concepts that tension the ways of thinking about psychoanalytic intervention.