Meeting between Christophe Dejours and chilean workers. Conversations about mental health and suffering at work.

Abstract

We present here an analysis and discussion produced in the conversations of mental health and suffering at work done in preparation for the meeting between Christophe Dejours and different groups of chilean workers. From the voice of the workers, some key concepts of the Psychodynamics of work are re-configured: the distinction between the fact of working and the organization of work, the problem of suffering and identity, the pathologies of loneliness and suicide at work among others. The final lines emphasize in the double centrality of the work: on the subjectivity and on the social relations, raising the relevance of thinking and developing in Chile work clinics perspectives.