Ensaio sobre a doença do mundo em meio à queda do céu confluências entre psicologia fenomenológica e cosmo-ontologia Yanomami

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the meanings of the health-disease process in the contemporary world, understood here as the "illness of the world", in dialogue with Yanomami cosmo-ontology. As a guiding thread, we analyze how the illness of the world appears in Davi Kopenawa's accounts of the phenomenon of "The Falling Sky", where the Yanomami shaman describes our historical time as marked by the health collapse of Planet Earth as a whole. The methodology of this work is anchored in Martin Heidegger’s Hermeneutic Phenomenology, focusing on the notions of "Technique", "Abandonment of Being" and "Serenity" (Gelassenheit), placing them in dialogue with the units of meaning apprehended in The Falling Sky. The study aims to contribute to the development of knowledge and care practices in the field of health, and specifically to the phenomenological psychology that grounds this work. This investigation is urgent in our historical time, given climate change as a paradigm of our era and the possible interrelation between the foundational meaning of this phenomenon and the alarming increase in mental disorders today. The results of this theoretical essay revolve around the elucidation of this historical meaning, which acts as a vital nexus structuring both contemporary pathologies - such as anxiety and depression - and climate change, analyzing how human presence, oriented by technique, simultaneously falls collectively ill and fulfills the ecological collapse we are currently facing. This study seeks a "pollination" of understandings and pathways of care that consider the phenomenon of The Falling Sky, valuing the Earth's Indigenous Peoples and their knowledge. It aims to pave the way for those who have been historically violated by the techno-colonial process to be heard and respected in their importance - including in the academic sphere - and viewed as indispensable for the care of the "illness of the world"