The oppressive construction of poverty in Brazil and its consequences in the psyche

Abstract

The social configuration of reality constitutes the human psyche. We aim to analyze the historical process of poverty in Brazilian culture and its consequences in the psyche, starting from a nonsystematic literature review. Thus, in Brazil, poverty bears a stigmatizing process of social and ideological construction of the poor person. We also identified that in recent years there has been a series of government measures to combat poverty. We realize, therefore, the development of a complex web in which the relations of power and oppression are inserted in the form of recognition and in the psyche of this population in poverty situation, as well as the existence of resistance movements. It is necessary, then, to strengthen the potentialities of poor people and reveal these practices of oppression as part of the process of eradication of poverty in Brazil.