ABSTRACT: This work was originally published as part of our approved thesis in 2016. In the second doctorate, we are taking up questions regarding this text, since the condominium phenomenon assumes an increasingly widespread occurrence....
moreABSTRACT: This work was originally published as part of our approved thesis in 2016. In the second doctorate, we are taking up questions regarding this text, since the condominium phenomenon assumes an increasingly widespread occurrence. In order to 'rationalize' the occupation of Barra da Tijuca, still in the 1960s, the same urbanist that projected Brasília was invited. There is no mention of the word condominium in the Pilot Plan, although this was the form that was consolidated as a dwelling in the neighborhood, becoming a model associated with consumption and idealization, present both in the discourse of residents and in the stereotype created for them, that of the new-rich. Although there is a distinct spatial shape in the neighborhood compared to the rest of the city's form, it tends to mimic the behavior verified in the residents of the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro. The area was built in order to make the neighborhood an extension of that region, an idea that is present in the advertisements of land in the 1950s, at the beginning of its occupation, by means of the terrestrial connection with the South Zone of the city. We rely on a condominium configuration that, when approaching the favela, points to the reproduction of a state of exception that sustains the narcissistic fantasy of the walls. A certain prejudice in the neighborhood is associated with the lack of relevant cultural equipment, which is overcome by the construction of the City of Arts, a project that is in accordance with the marketing of cities and with strategic planning and began with Mayor César Maia. We propose the subjectivity existing in condominium life as the “death” of alterity, because it stems fundamentally from the regressive ego Ideal, giving rise to mimesis and narcissism of small differences, supported by the Greek myths of Cronus and Ulysses, and relating - respectively, to the regressive ego Ideal and to the maturing ego Ideal. It should be emphasized that condominium is one of the possible forms of the 'death' of alterity, since in it the walls impair the mirroring necessary for the constitution of identity. Methodologically, we used interviews with residents and former residents, among them the former mayor César Maia, in order to verify their perception regarding the experience of living in condominiums in Barra da Tijuca. Thus, we were able to contrast the subjects' discourse with the bibliographical review necessary for the research and to understand how much the State contributes to the formation of certain narratives that legitimize their actions, usually impinging on the private interests of the real estate market. In this sense, the construction of the City of Arts, sponsored by the City Hall, becomes the epitome of a re-signification of Barra da Tijuca.