Estamos todos ansiosos? Os diagnósticos de ansiedade na sociedade contemporânea: uma análise psicanalítica

Abstract

This paper aims to critically analyze, from a psychoanalytic perspective, the increase in anxiety diagnoses in contemporary society. It hypothesizes that the growth in diagnoses is closely related to the medicalization and pathologization of everyday life, in which common experiences of human suffering are translated into clinical categories. To this end, the historical constitution of psychiatric clinics and the normative function of classification manuals, such as the DSM and ICD, were discussed. In dialogue with psychoanalysis, the reduction of the subject to standardized diagnostic criteria and the displacement of unease to the logic of biochemical correction are problematized. The analysis indicates that anxiety, from a psychoanalytic perspective, is not a disorder to be suppressed, but a structuring affect that expresses the subject's singular relationship with desire and lack. Therefore, the study proposes a critical reading of the place of diagnosis and medication in contemporary clinical practice, reaffirming the importance of listening and singularity in the face of the homogenization of psychic suffering.