Habitats

• Grant number: 12/50175-9
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants - Publications - Books published in Brazil
• Start date: August 01, 2012
• End date: July 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Psychological Treatment and Prevention
• Principal Investigator: Andrea Carvalho Bezerra de Menezes Masagao
• Grantee: Andrea Carvalho Bezerra de Menezes Masagao
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• City of the host institution: Campinas

Abstract

The home is par excellence the place of recognition and belonging that anchors the self in its mirroring relationship with objects of the world. The Freudian “Unheimlich” concept introduces a rift in harmonization between the person and the habitat. The familiar is also the uncanny that we do not recognize or assimilate as being a part of the set. Interrogating the habitat based on the rift opened by Freud will allow us to circumscribe the uninhabitable through the study of some names. (AU)