Maria Rita Kehl | |
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 Kehl, in 2009, at Café Filosófico CPFL
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| Born |
December 10, 1951 |
| Alma mater | University of São Paulo |
| Occupation(s) | psychoanalist, writer, poet, essayist, lierary critic |
Maria Rita Kehl, ORB (born December 10, 1951) is a Brazilian psychoanalyst, journalist, poet, essayist, cronista and literary critic. In 2010, she won the Jabuti Award in the Education, Psychology and Psychoanalysis category and the Human Rights Award from the Brazilian government in the Media and Human Rights category.
Life and career
Kehl was born in Campinas, São Paulo. She graduated in psychology from the University of São Paulo, and started writing for Jornal do Bairro while still in college. She worked for the newspaper managed by writer Raduan Nassar for two years. She was editor for the alternative newspaper Movimento, critical of the Brazilian military regime.
Kehl also participated in the foundation of newspaper Em Tempo and wrote as a freelancer for Veja, Isto É, Folha de S. Paulo and O Estado de S. Paulo.
In 1979, Kehl began her master's degree in social psychology and wrote the dissertation "O Papel da Rede Globo e das Novelas da Globo em Domesticar o Brasil Durante a Ditadura Militar". In 1981, Kehl started attending patients. In 1997, she received her doctorate in psychoanalysis at PUC-SP. The research resulted in the book Deslocamentos do Feminino - A Mulher Freudiana na Passagem para a Modernidade in 1998. Kehl has written several books and articles in the areas of literature, culture, and psychoanalysis.
In 2012, she was invited to participate in the National Truth Commission, which was installed on May 16 to investigate human rights violations which had occurred in Brazil between September 18, 1946 and October 5, 1988.
Published works
- Processos Primários (Editora Estação Liberdade, 1996)
- A Mínima Diferença (Imago Editora, 1996)
- Deslocamentos do Feminino - A Mulher Freudiana na Passagem para a Modernidade (Imago Editora, 1998)
- Função Fraterna (Relume Dumará, 2000)
- Sobre Ética e Psicanálise (Companhia das Letras, 2000)
- Ressentimento (Casa do psicólogo, 2004)
- Videologias, co-written by Eugênio Bucci (Boitempo Editorial, 2004)
- A Fratria Órfã (Editora Olho d'Água, 2008)
- O Tempo e o Cão (Boitempo Editorial, 2010), translated in English as Time and the Dog (Verso Books, 2018)
- 18 crônicas e mais algumas (Boitempo Editorial, 2011)