Autopoiesis and Psychology

This paper aimed to research the elaboration of the concept of Autopoiesis in the work of biologists Humberto Maturana Romes n and Francisco Javier Varela Garc a, and its subsequent entry into the field of Psychology. A cutout for this entry was chosen, and two main axes were worked on: the first was structured from the discussion about the production of subjectivity; the second was structured from the debate on constructivist psychotherapeutic practices. In face of the proposed objectives, the present theoretical study made use of a bibliographical research, aiming to observe the existing proposals by the theoreticians of this field. In particular, it was researched how the biological theory of Maturana and Varela managed to establish a proposal of articulation between several areas of human knowledge, in an exercise that avoided reductionism and dichotomies. In this way, we tried to observe how a biological theory could help to problematize issues in the field of psychology.