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| Author(s): |
Elaine Pedreira Rabinovich
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Psicologia (IP/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 1997-03-13 |
| Examining board members: |
Eda Terezinha de Oliveira Tassara;
Eclea Bosi;
Sueli Damergian;
Fernando Lefevre;
Suzana Pasternak
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| Advisor: | Eda Terezinha de Oliveira Tassara |
| Field of knowledge: | Humanities - Psychology |
| Indexed in: |
Banco de Dados Bibliográficos da USP-DEDALUS;
Index Psi Teses - IP/USP |
| Location: | Universidade de São Paulo. Biblioteca do Instituto de Psicologia; BF353; R116v |
| Abstract | |
This study aims to propose terms of analysis of the domestic environment seen as a psycho social-cultural manifestation. Three successive case studies were considered in order to bypass the ethnocentric bias. From the study of things displayed in a spatial arrangement named dwelling (60 houses in a São Paulo urban zone) there was a divergent focus to the study of non-thing: non-house (49 houses of homeless people), non-body (tombs in cemeteries) and non-city (20 houses in a Brazilian northeast rural zone). Successive, complementary and unfolding analysis suggested a virtual semantic matrix, dialecticly organized in a hyper-space, whose terms were seen to be: symbol; corporality, temporality and poelics. The application of these terms to the case studies that originated them resulted in the following chapters: the house as symbol; as body; as lime; as poetry. Each of these terms were analysed both from a genetical and a genealogical method. From this method, another term emerged called brazility. Two types of culture were depicted: the culture of things and the culture of the body, meaning two complementary sets of cultivation values and practices. From the overlapping of these two kinds of cultures, brazility was seen as a syncretical, hybrid, mestizo and multicultural societal organization, stemming from a liminal condition. This condition of liminality was supposed to be a historical condition of the psycho-social Brazilian subject, whose behaviors consistently suggested a des-territoriality around a motherland, a mother tongue, where, by a transformist ritual, new meanings were continously incorporated and re-meant through an anthropophagical movement allowing changing and tradition to coexist. It was hypothesized that liminality has originated from a vaccum as the original myth of the socio-historically (de)constructed condition of the Brazilian-being. (AU) | |