The negative primitive: Of the ancestor animals of Kopenawa To the empty show in The Congress

Abstract

The present article works on a comparison by confrontation of the
depiction of the monster figure as found in the work of the yanomami
shaman Davi Kopenawa The Falling Sky with the movement of desideration,
disaster, of the intellectual path of the Occident towards the emptiness of
myth and its monstrosities of pure appearance that populate the image of
the film The Congress. Leaning strongly on the elaboration of Jacques Lacan
about the interest of myth in dealing with a single object, which is the object
of desire, we walk down the theoretical track of the exhaustion of sense in
Jean-Luc Nancy towards the notion of the body as areality which now focuses
the cosmological potency once bound to the stars.