Negationism in academic texts in the Portal de Periódicos Capes

Abstract

This work is part of a discussion about the growing use of the term negationism, either in the press or in academic debates published in the media, to investigate the scientific production about the use of the term in the Portal de Periódicos Capes, in Portuguese. Originating in the desire to deny a truth to appease individual afflictions, the expression was born in Freudian psychoanalysis, today designating conduct of a collective character. For the study proposed, bibliographic research, bibliometric strategies and content analysis techniques are adopted in order to ascertain cuttings and concepts accepted in the studies retrieved from that database. The result points to the existence of only 6 indexed works on the Portal, all published between the years 2009 and 2020.