Based on the ethnographic research carried out on speech-based therapies at health centers in marginalized areas of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, this article problematizes the “breaking down” or “being broken” as a local language of afflictions that emerges from the rapidly deteriorating material living conditions related to downward social mobility. Specifically, I analyze how these discomforts turn into narrative in terms of economic and political subjective and collective crises, which combine and hybridize personal experiences with mainstream discourses of the country’s recent history. Based on a brief analysis of the changing relationships between psychoanalysis and poverty in the Buenos Aires area, I also examine how speech-based approaches classify these afflictions as “social issues,” external to their logic, as they resist to be entirely subdued to current psychological knowledge, categories, and techniques.

基于对布宜诺斯艾利斯都会区边缘地区卫生中心基于言语疗法进行的人种学研究，本文将“崩溃”或“被打破”作为一种当地语言的问题化与社会向下流动相关的物质生活条件。具体来说，我分析了这些不适如何变成经济和政治主观和集体危机的叙事，这些危机将个人经历与该国近代历史的主流话语相结合和混合。基于对布宜诺斯艾利斯地区精神分析与贫困之间不断变化的关系的简要分析，我还研究了基于言语的方法如何将这些痛苦归类为“社会问题”，在其逻辑之外，