DANCING WITH ATABAQUES, ALL DANCING TOGETHER: THE (RE)ENCHANTMENT OF LIFE THROUGH THE ANCESTRAL BODY
Dance in Candomblé. Racism. Psychoanalysis. Social Suffering. Traumatic Marks. Perlaboration. Ancestral Body.
Religious intolerance against Candomblé is understood as a direct manifestation of structural racism, materializing as social suffering, as it leads to the oppression of cultural and expressive freedom, with the suffering being individualized and delegitimized. Its attacks deeply wound their targets, embedding traumatic marks in their subjectivities. These marks, entangled in power relations, prevent the symbolic representation of experiences, provoking narcissistic and identity-related suffering. Candomblé is considered here as a synonym for enchantment: an ancestral technology of counter-colonization of the unconscious, which promotes subversion through its own tools. This work seeks to understand how dance in Candomblé acts as a clinical-political device for traumatic elaboration.