Banca de DEFESA: AUANNA MARQUES SILVA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : AUANNA MARQUES SILVA
DATE: 22/05/2026
TIME: 10:30
LOCAL: UFRRJ
TITLE:

Candomblé, Body, and Trauma: Peripheralizing Psychology by Dancing to Hell

KEY WORDS:

Dance in Candomblé; Trauma; Body; Race; Working-through; Psychoanalysis

PAGES: 69
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Psicologia
SUMMARY:

Racism, as a social technology, is a direct manifestation of the structuring of Brazilian society, and it materializes as social trauma, culminating in the oppression of cultural and expressive freedom, with suffering being individualized and delegitimized. Racist attacks intimately wound their targets, incorporating traumatic marks into subjectivities. These marks, enveloped in power relations, affect the non-symbolization of experiences, provoking narcissistic-identity suffering. In this context, this work hypothesizes that dance in candomblé acts as a clinical-political device for traumatic elaboration, subverting the traditional molds of classical psychoanalysis. Through a process of elaboration under new perspectives and references, dance in candomblé can be seen as an act of remembrance that decrystallizes positions of social subjugation, affiliating adherents to the cult within the social bond, based on identification with their peers and the orishas. Candomblé is considered here as synonymous with enchantment: an ancestral technology of counter-colonization of the unconscious, which promotes subversion through its own tools. In this sense, field research, based on the methodology of Escrevivência, opens paths for psychoanalysis to dance new movements, going to hell and symbolically representing in a corporeal way the traumatic marks stemming from racism. Thus, it seeks to strengthen the reconstruction of the field of psychology, so that it becomes involved in the crossroads of knowledge, valuing non-academic epistemologies, considering the ancestral knowledge repressed in the colonized unconscious. Dance in candomblé is, therefore, a clinical tool that enables new productions of meaning.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1331913 - MARIANA FERREIRA POMBO
Interna - ***.796.467-** - FERNANDA CANAVEZ DE MAGALHAES - UFRJ
Externo à Instituição - ALVARO RAFAEL SANTANA PEIXOTO - UNIVERSO