LANGUAGES: ENGLISH, ESPAÑOL, PORTUGUÊS ABSTRACT This article analyzes the socio-historical formation of Brazil through the relationship between Knowledge and Power, articulated by a dual mechanism of the negation of the real. This negation involves, on one hand, the Real as a Lacanian psychoanalytic category, a register that resists symbolization and marks the point of impossibility and the constitutive lack of the symbolic order. On the other hand, it involves the real as socio-historical materiality, the ensemble of structural contradictions, such as inequality, foundational violence, and exclusion, which function as the traumatic core of collective experience. The central thesis argues that Power subordinates Knowledge through this mechanism of double negation, which does not eliminate "the real" in either of its two dimensions, but rather discursively reconfigures the field of the "speakable" to block its symbolic inscription and social recognition. In its first modality, negation organizes the symbolic to suture the structural lack, producing an illusion of completeness and coherence where there is irreducible antagonism. In the second, it produces official narratives that transform structural violence into contingent episodes and contradictions into exceptions, thereby canceling dissonant experiences. The analysis then examines key moments in Brazilian history, Independence as a concealment of subjugation; Abolition and the First Republic as apparatuses of exclusion; and the New Republic as a new simulacrum, to demonstrate the effects of this double negation. The study concludes that the persistence of the Brazilian hegemonic model, rooted in a colonial matrix, is made possible by this process that interdicts critical knowledge, condemning the country to a cyclical repetition of its foundational trauma under degraded forms of underdevelopment, crisis, and violence.
Alejandro Vaillant Valdes (Wed,) studied this question.