O imaginário das águas, eros e a criança

Abstract

By diving intothe Waters ofthe Imaginary - representations, beliefs, and desires, bubbling around the western culture, I questioned the enigma that forms the child erotic desire. The waterskeep on the people's imaginary and go by themes such as the water being the source oflife, a form ofpurification, regenerative center; sacred and profane, purity and impurity, tunnoil and lull, pleasure and mortification, feminine and masculine, damp and dry, life and death, creation and destruction. These are themes concerning to the History ofCivilizations and Religions, Linguistics, Anthropology, Psychology, Medicine, among others, that seekto studythe structures ofthe imaginary. The dynamic ofinterweaving texts forms the thematic itinerary that names the thesis chapters: Polyphony ofthe Senses. The Myth ofProteus; Purification; The Baths; Water - Accomplice in the Erotic Learning ofthe Body; Childhood; Initiation, the Imaginaryofthe Waters and the Enigma ofChild Sexuality. To compose this itinerary I interwove the ideas ofphüosopher Bachelard and various academic texts including contributions from historians, studious ofthe infant period, myths, and painters' work of art; as well as films that bring along child/characters and their erotic desires, and depositions of adolescents and adults recollecting their nearnessto water duringchildhood. The adult still exercises the violence ofa powerful look before the erotic desire ofthe child that dribbles this power by buildingup its routes ofescape. The nearnessto the water might favor the look ofthe child at itselfand the other, making easier its sexual findings, propitiatinglark and sensualpleasure.