THE EDGES OF THE GLASS WRINKLE: CONSIDERATIONS ON THE MELANCHOLY OF CLARITY AND FUNCTION FROM GRACILIANO RAMOS WRITINGS

Authors

  • KARLA PATRICIA HOLANDA MARTINS

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/polemica.2011.2834

Abstract

The present article proposes to articulate narratives produced by melancholic discourse in the analytic setting and some of the literary narratives which focus the theme of sertão aproaching ways of constructing narrative and psychic organization strategies. We will focus the works of Graciliano Ramos, more particularly his books Infância. The first one will be taken as an ilustration of the response the subject produces facing a narcisistic investmente that, not fullfilling his goal of softening the real, formalized an alliance between lucidity (as an identitary mark) and the attitude of suspicious facing language itself. In a similar way to what Freud had said about melancholic discourse, the scenery is of a war. The description of such ‘other’ that does not accept idealization are found again, alegorically in the discourses related to the homeland and to the sertão..

Keywords: melancholy, Graciliano Ramos, lucidity, narratives.

Author Biography

KARLA PATRICIA HOLANDA MARTINS

Professora Titular do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia da Universidade de Fortaleza, Psicanalista, Doutora em Teoria Psicanalítica pela UFRJ, Membro-Coordenadora do Laboratório de Estudos e Intervenções Psicanalíticas na Clínica e no Social, Membro do Grupo de Trabalho da ANPEPP "Processos de Subjetivação, Clínica Ampliada e Sofrimento Psíquico", Coordenadora da Pesquisa Psicogênese e Psicanálise. Pesquisadora Associada do LIPIS

Published

2012-03-30

How to Cite

MARTINS, K. P. H. (2012). THE EDGES OF THE GLASS WRINKLE: CONSIDERATIONS ON THE MELANCHOLY OF CLARITY AND FUNCTION FROM GRACILIANO RAMOS WRITINGS. POLÊM!CA, 10(1), 30 a 44. https://doi.org/10.12957/polemica.2011.2834

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LIPIS - Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Pesquisa e Intervenção Social