O artesanato entre tradições e identidades : uma análise a partir de Ferenczi, Winnicott e Butler

Abstract

Attributing a character of resistance to contemporary handicrafts, this research explored the subjective path from subjection and resistance to resignification. We argued in favor of the spontaneous gesture and the appropriation of traditions as a form of resistance, suggesting handicrafts as an emblematic case of affirmation of non-hegemonic ways of being. Therefore, we read Ferenczi as a political thinker, in dialogue with Winnicott’s concept of transitionality and Judith Butler’s developments on subjection. Focusing on the concept of a decentered subject, the available identities in the culture and its uses were tensioned through an analysis of May Agontinmé’s series Restauros Pretos. To this end, we considered psychoanalysis contributions to the understanding and elaboration of Brazilian racism, and its possible ways out of disidentification with the aggressor. Finally, we proposed the differentiation between identities and strategic manifestations, considering the latter as a resistance tool.