{"id":893,"date":"2025-11-30T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluralizar.org\/?post_type=articulos&#038;p=893"},"modified":"2026-01-22T20:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:07:17","slug":"the-politics-of-error-rethinking-the-power-of-the-symptom-in-the-case-of-adhd-diagnosis-in-chilean-society","status":"publish","type":"articulos","link":"https:\/\/pluralizar.org\/index.php\/articulos\/the-politics-of-error-rethinking-the-power-of-the-symptom-in-the-case-of-adhd-diagnosis-in-chilean-society\/","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of Error: Rethinking the Power of the Symptom in the Case of ADHD Diagnosis in Chilean Society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Radiszcz, Esteban y Sir, Hugo (2018). \u201cThe Politics of Error: Rethinking the Power of the Symptom in the Case of ADHD Diagnosis in Chilean Society\u201d. Journal of Social and Political Psychology. 6(2): 711-727.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> This article seeks, mainly, to develop a critical approach to the problem of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and, through this, to rethink the problem of activism and militancy in relation to the power of a symptom linked to a corporality that seems to overflow a determined moral political framework. For this reason, we seek to think of a militancy that intensifies error, as a political power, beyond the search for a specific and universal diagnostic associated with what is understood as evidence. We begin with the description of the emergence of what we have called the ADHD Situation. First, using field notes from a collective ethnographic investigation performed during 2017, we describe the ADHD Situation as an ongoing process. Then we connect it to a broader context by examining the role of the school in contemporary Chilean neoliberal society from a genealogical-affective approximation, trying to avoid substantializing readings. In the second section, we develop this connection, describing the production of the ADHD Situation through the lenses of epistemology, ethics, economics, and politics. We also use here a critical analysis of three key documents that help us chart the institutional development of the disorder: The National Mental Health Plan (2017), the National Children\u2019s Health Program (2015) and the Clinical Guide to Attention Deficit (2009). We demonstrate the existence of an epistemological connivance between macrosocial transformations and the community approach utilized in these documents. This provokes us to think about a militancy capable of trespassing the borders of academia, health definitions, and social interventions through the intensification of the power of error as an opening to radical transformations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Resumen: <\/strong>Este art\u00edculo busca, principalmente, desarrollar una aproximaci\u00f3n cr\u00edtica al problema del Trastorno por D\u00e9ficit de Atenci\u00f3n con Hiperactividad (TDAH) y, a trav\u00e9s de ello, repensar el problema del activismo y la militancia en relaci\u00f3n con el poder de un s\u00edntoma vinculado a una corporalidad que parece desbordar un marco pol\u00edtico-moral determinado. Por esta raz\u00f3n, buscamos pensar una militancia que intensifique el error, como potencia pol\u00edtica, m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de la b\u00fasqueda de un diagn\u00f3stico espec\u00edfico y universal asociado a lo que se entiende como evidencia. Partimos de la descripci\u00f3n de la emergencia de lo que hemos llamado la Situaci\u00f3n TDAH. En primer lugar, utilizando notas de campo de una investigaci\u00f3n etnogr\u00e1fica colectiva realizada durante 2017, describimos la Situaci\u00f3n TDAH como un proceso en curso. Luego, la conectamos con un contexto m\u00e1s amplio, examinando el rol de la escuela en la sociedad neoliberal chilena contempor\u00e1nea desde una aproximaci\u00f3n geneal\u00f3gico-afectiva, procurando evitar lecturas sustancialistas. En la segunda secci\u00f3n, desarrollamos esta conexi\u00f3n, describiendo la producci\u00f3n de la Situaci\u00f3n TDAH a trav\u00e9s de las lentes de la epistemolog\u00eda, la \u00e9tica, la econom\u00eda y la pol\u00edtica. Aqu\u00ed tambi\u00e9n realizamos un an\u00e1lisis cr\u00edtico de tres documentos clave que nos permiten trazar el desarrollo institucional del trastorno: el Plan Nacional de Salud Mental (2017), el Programa Nacional de Salud Infantil (2015) y la Gu\u00eda Cl\u00ednica de Trastorno por D\u00e9ficit de Atenci\u00f3n (2009). Demostramos la existencia de una connivencia epistemol\u00f3gica entre las transformaciones macrosc\u00f3picas y el enfoque comunitario utilizado en estos documentos. Esto nos provoca a pensar en una militancia capaz de transgredir los l\u00edmites de la academia, las definiciones sanitarias y las intervenciones sociales, mediante la intensificaci\u00f3n del poder del error como apertura hacia transformaciones radicales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdfjsblock-pdfjs-embed pdfjs-wrapper\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radiszcz, Esteban y Sir, Hugo (2018). \u201cThe Politics of Error: Rethinking the Power of the Symptom in the Case of ADHD Diagnosis in Chilean Society\u201d. Journal of Social and Political Psychology. 6(2): 711-727. 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