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Analyzing Brazil's orgy at carnaval time is almost as much fun as participating in it. American Psychiatrist Dr. Reba Campbell feels that it offers Brazilians "a chance to live deep in fantasy," fulfilling everyone's "need to be important." A Brazilian psychiatrist, Dr. José Leme Lopes...
Carnaval is not so much a time to prepare for Lent and deny earthly pleasure as it is an opportunity to realize romantic ambitions. It is the one time when a person is permitted to work out his sex problems in his own fashion. He finds a new love, or...
Brazil is ostensibly a Catholic country, but it is not really Catholic. African rites were brought by slaves, and the lower-class people who prac tice spiritism have adopted Catholic saints and some Catholic rituals. They use the Catholic icons to represent their African gods. Carnaval ends up as a...
In the U.S., everyone can afford to live it up more than once a year. But the poor Brazilian is kept away from places of entertainment by his color and his clothes; he wouldn't know how to act, and he doesn't have the money anyway. Carnaval...
The phenomenon of carnaval is that a person begins to think, "It's not so much that I am having fun, but I see so many people having fun that I too begin enjoying myself. And because they see me having fun, they, in turn, have more fun." That...