GENDER, SUBJECTIVITY, AND MENTAL HEALTH: POSSIBLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO A SITUATED PSYCHOANALYSIS

Abstract

This article explores the articulation between gender, subjectivity, and mental health from a gender perspective. Drawing on clinical practice in public health institutions, it analyzes how gender inequalities affect health-illness-care processes and the production of psychic suffering. It examines modes of female subjectivation, incorporating contributions from Río de la Plata psychoanalysts who have contributed to the dialogue between psychoanalysis and feminism. Intersectionality is introduced as a tool for understanding the complexity of psychic suffering. Finally, the notion of situated psychoanalysis is proposed as a clinical and ethical horizon capable of articulating the intrapsychic with the sociohistorical conditions that shape subjective constitution.