Il concetto di alterità tra psicanalisi lacaniana e antropologia ontologica: Una prospettiva politica sulla produzione della differenza

Abstract

Psychoanalysis and anthropology share a common history made of
confrontations and conflicts. Jacques Lacan’s work bears the marks of
this prolific and difficult dialogue: in order to reform the sciences of the
psyche, he incorporated some concepts taken from anthropology, but
he soon criticized the discipline because of its disinterest towards the
subjective dimension of the human “facts”. Many anthropologists had as
well shown skepticism towards psychoanalysis’ Eurocentric approach. In
this article we take into account the possibility of confronting the work
of Lacan with the one of the anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro.
Focusing on the methods of psychoanalytical listening and ethnological
description, we try to show why these two approaches share a similar
conception of otherness and a common political agenda.