Endogenous Belongingness & Identify: biopsychosocial narrative of the black body in the History and life of Carlos Alberto Medeiros
Endogenous Belongingness; Identity; Black Body; Autobiography.
This study aims to intuit and elaborate the construction of the concept “endogenous belongingness”, as a principle inherent to the formation of the identity of black people in Brazil. The biopsychosocial theoretical basis of the anthropological field is supported by two concepts: “identity” and “identification”, according to the British-Jamaican sociologist Stuart Hall (1932-2014); and to describe the integration of affections, construction of subjectivities, and the expression of individual and collective life histories, the study interacts with the psychology of the Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), through concepts such as: identity, identification, persona, personality, body-soul integration, and individuation process. And, as a background between these two authors, the notion of "blackness", according to the Congolese-Brazilian anthropologist Kabenguele Munanga (1940-) will be used to support socio-historical incursions, on the stage of the biunivocal plot Africa-Brazil. In this context, and to illustrate the objective of this research, autobiographical scenes between the years 1970-2021, of the intellectual and militant of the Brazilian black movement, journalist and doctor in Comparative History from UFRJ, Carlos Alberto Medeiros (1947-), will be a source of inspiration, reflection, analysis and unveiling to reveal and ratify the concept: “endogenous belongingness”.