Archetypal Representations About Indigenous People About the Brazilian Collective Unconscious
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This essay addresses the theme of the formation of the archetype and its relationship to the Brazilian Indian, using as a mechanism of adaptation an archetypal model already consolidated in the popular imagination, namely Adam and Eve and their short existence in the Garden of Paradise, in which the comparison becomes a target of indignation when it is assumed that the two characters were expelled from their land because of a crime and the Brazilian natives are expelled because of the greed of the white man. Thus, this archetype of a good individual, but wronged, gains strength through the literature that claims to be specialized. This is a bibliographical essay. Traditionally, an archetype does not intend to represent a bizarre objective about some target object and, if this happens in the case of the indigenous people, it is precisely because Brazil, after centuries, is still a European colony, enslaved by the pathetic sense of believing that it is a representation of the old world and, under a spirit of overprotection of its native peoples, in which the opulence of laws aimed at the full protection of someone so harmless disguises its true intentions of keeping them as something rare, a symbol of the virtuousness of the land, creating a contrast with the people who originated from the mixture of others, as if the admission that they were all natural Brazilians represented a cause for disturbance, violating the natural right of the indigenous people and provoking divine wrath because of the hybridization that all Brazilian people represent; Thus, reality is denied, adopting an extra semantic condition, in which the native remains pure and the European does not recognize himself as contaminated through consanguineous crossing. The interpretation that is projected onto the psychology of the object, in this case, is controversial in itself, because it is based on information that is produced and disseminated for ideological purposes of maintaining a vision created many centuries ago, as if the full impact of technological development and national thought could not affect indigenous people. Social indignation is evident when Brazilian aborigines present themselves using modern cars and communication devices, using machines for planting and harvesting, as if they were obliged to persist in their traditional methods.
Authors: Braga, Geovane Leonardo dos Santos, Souza, Sérgio Rodrigues de
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6911798058
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