Native identity

The notion at the outset of this psychoanalytic research was to approach the question of national identity, starting from the Verticality of Man, in his connection with the Earth. In front of violence, always current, speeches around the national claims related to a membership of the Earth of the origins, question which meets a dead end for the thought, need for working (from the psychoanalytic point of view) the indigenous myths prove fertile. One shows that to think different dynamics from the stability of a vertical axis (flexible or rigid) makes it possible to distinguish the Earth from the Ground by imagining an interaction between these two entities. These various forms topics Earth-Ground- Verticality (-ies) condition the violent individual and group dynamics of nationalist claims. This approach represents a work of civilization (Kulturarbeit) and illuminates in return, starting from the image of verticality, the Freudian notion of primary identification. The innate identity supposes a sense of our vertical rapport with the Earth.