Abstract

SOUZA JUNIOR, Luiz Alberto de  and  LAGOAS, Juliano Moreira. The Brazilian Unheimliche. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2021, vol.55, n.4, pp. 211-225. ISSN 0486-641X.

Ten years ago, the anti-narcissistic essay by Viveiros de Castro was published. More than a mere synthesis of the central points of his Amerindian perspectivism, the text is explicitly a manifesto for the decolonization of anthropological and, implicitly, psychoanalytic thinking. Accepting the author's provocation, the present work suggests positioning the indigenous people as the Brazilian uncanny. Over the centuries to the present, the continuous effort to repress the original inhabitants became a cornerstone of the national identity. From this hypothesis, we pose two questions: What attributes of the indigenous people trigger such a repression effort? What is the role of psychoanalysis in this operation? For such investigation, we propose a dialogue between Viveiros de Castro's anthropology and the Freudian concept of Unheimliche. Supported by these theoretical foundations, we will argue that Brazil is a country founded on the unheimlich experience, and we will seek to track this movement of prefixing the Brazilian indigenous people from familiar to uncanny.

Keywords : psychoanalysis; anthropology; Unheimliche; indigenous; decolonial.

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