Abstract

PENHA, Diego Amaral  and  ROSA, Miriam Debieux. Zombies and Dystopia: The Remains of Coloniality and Fights for Freedom. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2023, vol.23, n.spe, pp.1291-1310.  Epub May 20, 2024. ISSN 1808-4281.  https://doi.org/10.12957/epp.2023.80119.

We discuss the traces present in the dystopia of our contemporary social ties as remnants of coloniality that survive in our culture. Methodologically, we resort to characters from the collective imaginary that question the place of the other in social and political scene. We understand that zombies as a social mnemic image bring visibility to the policies of degradation of the other-their domination, their extermination, as well as political demobilization. The historical and geographic contextualization of the origin and construction of these characters reinforces the presence of the colonizing and slavery logic there, based on the ways of capturing the subjects’ desires, bodies and lives, culminating in the effect of obliterating the prospects for the future. The figure of the zombie as a screen-memory of the enslaved black-Haitian denounces the disqualification of liberation struggles as nothing more than violent acts by an acephalous horde, as well as offers the opportunity to bring back the dignity of movements that claims for social transformation. Within a certain critical perspective, the zombies come to represent the social mnemic image of libertarians who never stop fighting. They become the symbolization of the impossible to govern; they react to dead condition as a fate, recovering the power to build a common in otherness.

Keywords : psychoanalysis; postcolonialism; zombies; colonialism; enslaved..

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