Abstract:This article intends to discuss the implications of certain questions posed by Amerindian perspectivism to psychoanalytical experience. That's because a central question of perspectivism raised by Viveiros de Castro can be transposed to the field of psychoanalysis: how to create conditions for ontological self-determination of the other when we all have our ontological presuppositions? Following the author's claim that the anthropologist should make a good enough description, an articulation is traced with the… Show more
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