Study of the Significance of the Body in Umbanda: limits and possibilities of applicability of some Lacan concepts / Estudo da significância do corpo na Umbanda: limites e possibilidades de aplicabilidade de alguns conceitos lacanianos

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2008

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The Umbanda religion holds a vaste and rich symbolic imagery which manifests itself through an wide range of ritual elements, such as gestures, movements, bodily expressions, speechs, dance, music, or by many other particular expressions included in this Brazilian religion. The study was done in two separated temples: the first one, the Mother Silvana Temple, located in the city of Varzea Paulista and the second, the Temple "Caboclo Flecha de Ouro", located in the city of Jundiaí, both situaded in the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The objective of this research was to investigate the limits and possibilities of some Lacan psychoanalytic concepts in its applicability to the ecstatic phenomena in Umbanda religion, concerning the body sphere. The concepts: body, significant, letter, object a, real and jouissance, were treated as operators in the field, without an application, however, of psychoanalysis as a method of investigation of subjective interiority or as a rival vision of the Umbanda world, so that the way people narrate their own experiences and their own conceptions of the phenomena could be preserved. The interviews were semi-structured, and also were held notes, recordings and observations of mediums and entities during Umbanda rituals and outside them. The analysis andminterpretation of data was qualitative. Lacans operators analytical concepts shown to be useful, both by allowing access to the symbolic aspects of the ecstasy, as for permitted by the experience define what it behave of incomprehensible.

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psicanálise lacaniana umbanda lacan psychoanalysis body umbanda corpo

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