Abstract:
This essay aims to establish some keynotes for an inquiry about the possibility of a “brazilianness”, taking nihilism as a central analytical concept. Is it possible to think of a specific operation with this concept in our particular context? The idea of a demoniac turned out to be important to approach the share of the undetermined that remains in every collective construct. Psychic dynamics, whether individual or collective, always evolve in the culture on overdetermined forms. Trying to think of this “brazilianness”, and considering the overdetermination of cultural and psychic facts, we propose to intertwine nihilism and some Brazilian cultural traits already studied by authors such as Mario de Andrade, Gilberto Freyre, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda.
Keywords:
Nihilism; Brazilianness; Cultural traits