Not everyone
who says they do everything
for love actually does
It's just that most
of us don't know what love
is. The title above and the
sentence that complements it
are from our interviewee,
psychologist and
psychoanalyst Marcos Antônio
Gonçalves de Alencar, from
Casa da Caridade in Maceió,
Alagoas, author of the book Poetry
as the Language of the
Unconscious: The
transversality of the poetic
journey from analysis of
clinical cases, launched
last month at the Bienal do
Livro in Maceió. The
interview is one of the
highlights of this issue.
Another highlight is the
final part of the special O
“Caminho de Damasco” by
Eurípedes Barsanulfo,
authored by our collaborator
and columnist Rogério
Coelho. According to the
research carried out by the
author, it would have been a
priest of the Catholic
Church who – albeit
indirectly – placed
Eurípedes Barsanulfo in the
spiritist ranks, in which he
is considered one of the
most eminent figures of
Spiritism in Brazil.
In the Spiritist Magazine of
October 1863, with the
title Burial of a
spiritist in the mass grave,
Kardec reports the death of
Mr. Costeau, a member of the
Spiritist Society of Paris,
whose body was buried on
September 12, 1863, in the
cemetery of Montmartre. The
text describes how the
burial ceremony took place
and the spirit
manifestations that took
place there, as Ana Moraes
reproduces in a special
article published in this
issue.
