Fabricated bodies and wandering souls

Dialogues between psychoanalysis and Amerindian perspectivism

Abstract

This article aims to explore possible dialogues between Jacques Lacan's psychoanalysis and the so-called Amerindian perspectivism, as proposed by ethnological literature. The argument unfolds along three axes: the epistemic-methodological foundations that constitute the ontological notion of reality/world; the conception of the body as a perceptual and identity matrix; the practices surrounding the dream report. The discussion provides potentially fruitful reflections for the reformulation of the anthropocentric foundations of psychoanalysis and the expansion of the scope of psychoanalytic notions regarding the body and dreams.