IDENTITY VERSUS ENDOGENOUS BELONGING: The biopsychosocial place of black bodies in the History of Brazil
Endogenous belongingness; Identity; Identification; Autobiography.
This study aims to investigate the experience of endogenous belongingness, as a principle for the formation of identities of black people in Brazil. The biopsychosocial theoretical basis of the logical field will be supported by the concepts: “identity” and “identification” by British-Jamaican, Stuart Hall (1932-2014), in order to describe the integration of affections, construction of subjectivities, and life and collective histories, according to the Psychology of the psychiatrist, Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), and shows the conceptual-psychological intertwining of the conception of “personality” and “persona”, in the life history of black people in Brazil. As a background, the notion of "blackness", according to the Brazilian-Congolese anthropologist, Kabengele Munanga (1940-), will illuminate socio-historical incursions, on the stage of the Africa-Brazil univocal plot. And, to illustrate the objective of the present research, the autobiography of the intellectual, militant of the black movement, and doctor in Comparative History at UFRJ, Carlos Alberto Medeiros (1947-), between the years 1970-2021 will be a source of inspiration, reflection, analysis, and development of the concept: “endogenous belongingness”, in dialogue with the last Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil of 1988.