The End and the Fall: Reflections on Care, Subjectivity, and Beautiful Parachutes

Psychoanalysis and social psychology have long constructed care mechanisms centered around Western societal structures: life under the State, Capital, and the notion of Humanity. Throughout this journey, shaped by social movements, essential issues concerning life under capitalism have been raised, particularly in the Global South, where survival is far from assured. Community mental health care practices have found institutional recognition in Brazil, manifesting through municipal health councils, basic health agents, family doctors, and the Unified Health System (SUS). These frameworks ensure the protection of diverse populations—women, children, quilombolas, Indigenous people, transgender individuals—within basic healthcare, integrating local socio-cultural factors and fostering attentive listening. Despite its limitations, the Brazilian health system has embraced this diversity. However, basic care remains rooted in an individualized, modern philosophical approach: the focus is on the atomized subject—one individual, one subjectivity. The "Nhë'ery" film series, directed by Anna Dantes, Carlos Papá, Cris Takuá, and Elisa Mendes, challenges this perspective by offering a multidimensional understanding of subjectivity. Inspired by these filmmakers and the ideas of Félix Guattari, this essay explores a crucial question: with what are we forming partnerships to sustain life? In opposition to traditional health mechanisms that emphasize specialized care, often reflecting a worldview entrenched in societal illness, we propose an alternative relationship with the "falling sky," one that embraces falling alongside it.