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The aim of this paper is to discuss the present Human Rights in the civilizing process and detect to what extent this practice was being undermined at work, characterized by quantophrenia and disqualification of those who resist or do not reach inhuman productivity goals. We believe the universalization of Human Rights while a clear sign of civilizing process and condition for democracy and ethics based on tolerance and dialogical practice. However, if we analyze the relations between human rights, ethics and work in the organizations, publics and educational includes, and your influence in the subjectivity, we point that barbarism pertains to the civilizing process which, paradoxically, produces situations of workplace bullying and morbid forms of solidarity, based on humiliation and stigmatization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The work and subjectivity of the postgraduate professor are part of a certain political-economic context shaped by the globalization of capital, state reform and naturalization of forms of management and work organization guided by the objectivist, functionalist and utilitarian paradigms. In this scenario, profound reforms are carried out in the role developed by the university, which tends to become a managerial, productivist and commodified institution. The teacher lives, then, a series of conflicts between the institutional demands and their subjectivity. Faced with this, we asked: Would pleasure at work be put on hold? Would suffering at work find possibilities, through the mediation of recognition, to transmute into pleasure? In order to examine this question, data and institutional documents of a public university, the UNESP, were collected and analyzed, and a questionnaire was administered to professors from two postgraduate programs of high academic performance. The theoretical contribution was based on the contributions of Psychodynamics and Psychosociology of Work. We point out that pleasure-suffering are imbricated elements that coexist in all dimensions of the professor work, although certain activities and relationships potentially generate greater pleasure and, at the same time, greater suffering. The intensification of the work, the wear and tear in front of the demands of routine tasks and the significant number of references to stress and / or illness were evidenced. But there are aspects that sometimes contradict each other, sometimes overshadowing these indicators of suffering. It is concluded that, in this intricate game of the antithetical pair pleasure-suffering, several possibilities open to the teaching subjectivities that are situated between the pathogenic suffering and the creative suffering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we aim to identify and analyze prevalent diagnosis of teachers' health problems, especially those concerning the mental health. The data are acquired of federal university research in expansion-internalization process, which analyzed the impact of the multiple demands of this process at work, related to health and subjectivity. The methodological instrument was composed of: semi-structured interviews with teachers of different areas, campuses and academic units; analysis of documents and data on the expansion; systematization of data on nonattendance due to health problems collected in consultation with the books of medical committee of the institution. We place in order the presentation of such records. On the other hand, we pointed out, to develop the scope limit of the article, qualitative aspects of the disease process and/or suffering with intersections between identified diagnoses and analysis of interviews. We conclude that sickness and suffering involve affective, ethical and political dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]