O presente ensaio busca, em um movimento retroativo, demonstrar que há no que chamamos de uma crítica da racionalidade clínica, realizada por Jacques Lacan no interior do freudismo, um rudimento de crítica da ideologia em sua raiz cínica. Nesse sentido, Lacan teria de alguma maneira se adiantado ao diagnóstico da modernidade realizado por Peter Sloterdijk, o que viria a influenciar filósofos políticos contemporâneos tais como Zizek e Safatle. Assim, buscamos explicitar tal relação, destacando ainda outros pontos que levam a clínica psicanalítica a coincidir com a crítica social. Partimos da perspectiva de que o método crítico e a possibilidade de expansão para além da clínica stricto sensu seriam características inerentes à práxis psicanalítica desde Freud.
The present essay seeks, in a retroactive movement, to demonstrate that there is in a critique of clinical rationality, performed by Jacques Lacan within Freudianism, a rudiment of critique of ideology at its cynical foundation. In this sense, Lacan would have advanced the idea that late modernity would be permeated by a cynical rationality, epoch diagnosis that influenced contemporary political philosophers such as Zizek and Safatle. Thus, we seek to explain this relationship, highlighting other points that lead the psychoanalytic clinic to coincide with social criticism. By way of illustration, we also carried out a brief analysis of the current Brazilian political situation as the maximum expression of the cynical ideology. Finally, we start from the perspective that the critical method and the possibility of expansion beyond the clinical stricto sensu would be characteristics inherent in psychoanalytic praxis since Freud.
