Abstract

KLEIN, Thais. Exu and psychoanalysis: from guilt to illusion. Tempo psicanal. [online]. 2022, vol.54, n.2, pp. 514-534. ISSN 0101-4838.

Although psychoanalysis and religion are not confounded, religious thought permeates much of Freud's work. It is, however, a religious conception that has as centrality guilt, since it is articulated with the neurotic paradigm and death of the father, being considered as an illusion analogous to neurotic fantasy. Just as other subjective configurations provoke psychoanalysis in contemporary times, religions of African matrix, such as candomblé, also provoke psychoanalysis and analytical experience, since they distance themselves from the centrality of guilt. The aim of this article is to open the paths to a still incipient discussion between psychoanalysis and candomblé and, to this end, part of the figure of Exu, more specifically, pointing out the plural place of corporeity and borders with the world. Finally, in dialogue with some of Winnicott's considerations, the illusion is taken not as analogous to neurotic fantasy, but as a field of potentialities that involve the updating of the past, present, and future and corporeity. From these considerations, some questions that candomblé implies for the analytical experience itself are outlined.

Keywords : Candomblé; Psychoanalysis; Religion; Guilt; Body.

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