Marco Akerman a
Felipe Scalisa b
Jacques Akerman c
aUniversidade de São Paulo Departamento de Prática em Saúde Pública, Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
bUniversidade de São Paulo Discente, curso de Medicina, Faculdade de Medicina, USP. São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
cFundação Mineira de Educação e Cultura Fundação Mineira de Educação e Cultura (FUMEC). Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.
We begin with shortcomings, and we must state outright that we are under no illusion that we can fill this hole with what we intend to discuss here, or that everything will settle into long-lasting unbreakable order after this filling has been set forth. We merely aspire to indicate possibilities that perhaps have not been tried out yet. This is just a desire, but with a strong conviction that there is no full objective, but that the shortcoming favors the condition of making desires possible.
According to Lacan, shortcomings are central to psychoanalysis1, in its task of unveiling desires. Thus, this allows us to be bold and undertake the conceptual studies that are necessary in order to correlate the shortcoming with a concept that is a novel objective. This is very ambitious, because novel objectives do not exist, but rather, are announced as hopes.
Recently, the topic of hazing and violence within the academic setting reemerged strongly, after some medical students at the University of São Paulo (USP) broke their silence to make the medical school’s malaise public. There was an outcry from society and a parliamentary commission of inquiry (CPI) was even set up in the state of São Paulo’s legislative assembly to investigate these complaints of human rights violations that had occurred in this state’s higher education institutions, through hazing, parties and day-to-day academic life.
