The article focuses on the artistic production of Antônio Francisco Lisboa, the Aleijadinho, installed in the church house of the Sanctuary of Bom Jesus de Matosinhos, in Congonhas do Campo, analyzing the way the minuncious detailing of the figures highlights the divine aspect portrayed by the artist: the antithesis between the mundane and the divine highlights the complementarity between opposites, an aspect also present in an excerpt from Don Quixote de La Mancha, by Cervantes. Starting from this analysis, the text “The Antithetic Meaning of Primitive Words”, by Freud, provides a basis for the foundation of the article, by dealing with the way the concepts were established, in the ancient languages, through these oppositions – antithesis – that helped to fix individual meanings in the minds of speakers throughout history.

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