Abstract

This article resorts to some concepts formulated by the anthropologist Viveiros de Castro on indigenous metaphysics: perspectivism, multinaturalism, animism, cannibal otherness, and the analysis of the xapiri and shamanic work, implied by the Yanomami shaman and author of The Falling Sky, to expand the understanding of Freudian metapsychology: the myth of parricide and its melancholic model, the images of movement (formulated in the Project for a Scientific Psychology) and the animistic method of knowing the unconscious.