Encounter with the ontology of the original peoples:

reunion with the erased traditions

Abstract

This paper deals with an experience report about a meeting and performance provided by the elective stage of the Multiprofessional Residency of Mental Health and Collective Health of UNICAMP, having as a cut the Indigenous Mental Health in its interface with the philosophical conceptions and visions that underpin the intervention. Using, therefore, the hermeneutic philosophy established by Martin Heidegger, with a dialogue with the Amerindian perspectivism of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. From the analysis made I stress the need to reconstruct, from new epistemological assumptions, a conceptual repertoire capable of transiting, minimally, in ethnic and culturally differentiated territories, that are able to listen to their subjective elaborations permeated by their cultural, family and cultural trajectory. Community level. We accept that it is possible to consider the phenomenological-existential starting point, emphasizing, nevertheless, the specificities of the lived indigenous world, more specifically, of an adolescent of a certain indigenous ethnicity, in a certain village, that is, territory. It is understood therefore that to return to the same things requires effort of being closer to what one lives and how one lives, and from there on, to build an encounter that is meaningful and therapeutic for the other.