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Vida malvada

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Anastomose, segundo o dicionário Houaiss

n substantivo feminino
1 Rubrica: biologia
Comunicação entre dois vasos ou canais quaisquer.
2 Rubrica: anatomia geral
Comunicação natural direta ou indireta entre dois vasos sanguíneos, entre dois canais da mesma natureza, entre dois nervos ou entre duas fibras musculares.
3 Rubrica: anatomia botânica
União total ou parcial de duas estruturas, tais como vasos, nervuras, ramos, raízes etc.
4 Rubrica: cirurgia
Formação cirúrgica de uma passagem entre duas estruturas tubulares ou ocas.
5 Rubrica: patologia
Junção ou ligação patológica entre dois espaços ou órgãos normalmente separados.

Etimologia
lat.tar. anastomósis, do gr. anastómósis 'ação de desrolhar, de abrir; abertura'
Homónimos
anastomose(fl.anastomosar)
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"Mais: se adoptarmos a análise freudiana dos deslocamentos genéticos da libido, constatamos que originariamente esta rítmica sexual está ligada à rítmica da sucção e que há uma anastomose muito possível entre a dominante sexual latente da infância e os ritmos digestivos da sucção."

DURAND, Gilbert, As Estruturas Antropológicas do Imaginário, trad. Helder Godinho, Lisboa, Presença, 1989, p. 36.

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Chris Knight

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The theory of the anthropologist Chris Knight (1991a) on the origins of culture provides a fascinating approach to the logic governing the symbolic structure of fairytales. Knight's model was inspired by developed in opposition to Lévi-Strauss's conceptual framework. Knight follows Lévi-Strauss in distinguishing between the 'syntax' of a myth or fairytale and its symbolism or 'meaning'. Whereas meanings are variable, at the syntactical level all myths echo an ancient rhythm which is time-resistant and identical the world over. Like Lévi-Strauss, Knight traces this invariant dimension of mythology back to a starting-poin in the paleilithic era - ultimately to the postulated origin of human symbolic culture as such. He draws on primatological and anthropological data to deduce the original nature of the human cultural system, and, in contrast to Lévi-Strauss, arrives at the conclusion that cultura was in essence created by women. Knoght argues that collective female 'strike action' was central to the establishment of menstrual taboos, ritual action and the human symbolic domains as such.

In proto-human societies, females, being relatively immobilized by their chid-nurturing activities, in order to have access to hunted meat, needed to ensure that males both periodically hunted and brought their catch back to a home base. By synchronizing their menstrual bleeding with the dark phase of the moon, they invented an artificial, symbolic construction that equated the moon's darkness with a period of sexual negativity (aimed at driving men away to hunt), and the moon's fullness with a period of heterosexual relations and feasting (after the meat had been brought back and cooked). During the dark phase of the lunar month women were sexually tabooed to men by reason of their bleeding, in exactly the same way that game animals were alimentarily tabooed to their male hunters by reason of their 'raw' and bloody state. With the advent of the light phase of the lunar month, when women, hunters and game animals had been purified from their polluting contact with blood rituals of washing and cooking, 'normal' social relationships could be resumed.

This model drastically challenges the conventional assumption that the 'nuclear family' was central to the social life of original human society. It posits, instead, the dynamic configuration of two radically different 'worlds', alterning in lunar sequence. One 'world', ruled by the dark moon, was a domain of the blood kinship ties, in which women were perceived as magic, hostile to 'husbands', sexually unavailable, 'invisible' and 'dead'. This was a phase of estrangement between the sexes, leading to the hunting of game animals. The successful outcome of that hunting led to a switch, a movement into another 'world', ruled by the full moon. This second domain was a domain of exogamous bonds, of feasting and fire, which, as the meat from the hunt was consumed, and the fullness of the moon itself diminished, would dissolve in turn back to the opposite phase agsain. The binary oppositions which, for Lévi-Strauss, are mental imprints with no relation to an outside reality, now become the outcome of a socio-economic reality that shaped counsciousness and culture and pervades all forms of symbolic thought. [...]

CARDIGOS, Isabel, In and out of enchantment: Blood symbolism and gender in Portuguese fairytales, Helsinquia, Academia Scientarum Fennica, 1996, pp. 38, 39.

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Introduction

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If it is true that the ability to be puzzled is the beginning of wisdom, then this truth is a sad commentary on the wisdom of modern man. Whatever the merits of our high degree of literary and universal education, we have lost the gift for being puzzled. Everything is supposed to be known - if not to ourselves then to some specialist whose business it is to know what we do not know. In fact, to be puzzled is embarrassing, a sign of intellectual inferiority. Even children are rarely surprised, or at least they try not to show that they are; and as we grow older we gradually lose the ability to be surprised. To have the right aswers seems all-important; to ask the right questions is considered insignificant by comparison.

FROMM, Erich, The forgotten language: an introduction to the understanding of dreams, fairy tales and myths, New York, Grove Press, 1951, p. 3.

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