THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF "UNS BRAÇOS"

Authors

  • Marcos Machado Nunes UFRGS

Keywords:

Assis, Machado de. "Uns braços". Literature and psychoanalysis. Lacan

Abstract

The text discusses the ways through which the short-story "Uns braços", by Machado de Assis, reenacts the psychoanalytical "family romance" giving an emphasis to the roles of language and desire in the processes of construction of the self. This emphasis allows the Author to suggest the existence of parallel structures in both Machado's narrative and lacanian psychoanalysis. Body and eroticism are, with language acting as a mediator, inserted in the dynamics of reproductions of family structures and social roles. To do that reading, the remarks made by loão Alexandre Barbosa on the relation of literary discourse and other discourses are taken as a theoretical basis.

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Author Biography

Marcos Machado Nunes, UFRGS

Mestre em Literatura Comparada (2001), com a dissertação Apocalipse romântico em "O triunfo da Vida", de P. B. Shelley, e Doutorando na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, com um Projeto sobre o sublime no Romantismo brasileiro, intitulado "O sublime tropical".

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Published

2004-06-19

How to Cite

Nunes, M. M. (2004). THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF "UNS BRAÇOS". Gragoatá, 8(14). Retrieved from https://periodicos.uff.br/gragoata/article/view/33447

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 14 (2003): BODIES, EROTICISM AND SEXUALITY

Section

Language Articles

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