摘要：The article problematizes assumptions of a decolonial thought and highlights its importance in the processes of formation of Brazilian psychology, mainly with regard to the decolonization, even if partial, of strategies for hegemonic production of knowledge and representational (colonial) modes of subjectification. In order to articulate this debate, it dialogues, more specifically, with parts of the works of Bhabha, Mbembe, Grosfoguel, Dussel and Spivak, as well as of the Brazilian researchers Alves and Delmondez, Ballestrin and Miglievich-Ribeiro. It was provisionally concluded that decolonial studies articulate engaged perspectives of knowledge production, insofar as they analyze, in a critical and localized way, the impregnation of colonial rationality in the ways in which we produce knowledge in Brazil and, more specifically, in the formation of society. Brazilian psychology. Finally, the ethical importance of the production of cross-border knowledge that enables other ways of thinking and acting in the psi field is emphasized.
