Based on reconstructive method, this thesis proposes a multidimensional and contextual approach to judicial activism, through which it will map and evaluate promises, pitfall traps and strategies around the interaction between law and politics in Brazil. The research adopts by theoretical lens Bourdieu s construction on symbolic power, applied to a legal subfield, the judicial field, especially the way that this subfield appropriates at the same time the logic of the political field and the scientific field. The roots of the term judicial activism are rescued, pointing out how the use of this key has contributed, in its original context, albeit under much semantic confusion, to feed a culture of observation / claim of judicial behavior, with consequent incorporation of bets and criticism of activism on academic and popular lexicons, with a broad impact on political dynamics. From this rescue, it is built a proposal for a multidimensional and contextual approach to judicial activism in the Federal Supreme Court, which seeks to overcome the binary understandings that capture it either as promising or as perverse. The promises from above around the judicial field are put into perspective - countermajoritarian function, representative function, and enlightening vanguard - as well as their pitfall traps and strategies, thought bottom-up.