Modos de gozo na dor de existir: um estudo psicanalítico sobre A falecida de Nelson Rodrigues

Abstract

This work grew out of clinical concerns. Instead of settling on a clinical case to develop the theme, we chose a cut of culture, the play A Falecida by Nelson Rodrigues: the modes of jouissance in the pain of existence. Thus, we maintain ethical confidentiality of clinics and use a contemporary psychoanalysis feature as a way to articulate the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) and Jacques Lacan (1901-1981). We begin with a historical context of both Nelson Rodrigues life, a famous brazilian playwriter, and the time when the play was written, as well as the literary school to which he belongs. As a background context to the discussions on the eyes of psychoanalysis, we make the question: what would be the mode of jouissance of Zulmira, main character of A Falecida (1953/1985), whose life project is a fantastic funeral wake? Then we address to the issue of the tragedy. We selected Antigone (2009) by Sophocles and articulated some contemporary authors with what Lacan elaborates on this theme in Le séminaire, Livre VII, L'éthique de la psychanalyse (1959 1960), we make a counterpoint between Antigone and Zulmira characters from Mourning and Melancholia (1915) by Freud. In the next chapter, we discuss Le séminaire, Livre XX, Encore (1972-1973), at which Lacan changes his clinic while talking about jouissance féminine. Thus, we discuss Lacan quotes la femme n existe pas and il n y a pas de rapport sexuel , when he discussed the pás-tout emphasizing the idea of non-complementarity between beings. Following, we chose three authors who write about characters of Nelson Rodrigues and we take as reference Le séminaire, Livre XX, Encore, and then we move on to a study of the work chosen from this reference. In the fourth and final chapter, we come to the core of our research while reading through Le Séminaire, Livre XXII R.S.I. (1974-1975) and Le Séminaire, Livre XXIII Le Sinthome (1975-1976), when Lacan describes the Borromean knot between real, symbolic and imaginary, adding a 4th node, holding the other three together, as a symptom of the subject. So, we discussed the possible modes of jouissance, through inhibition, symptom, and anxiety, and hypothesized the melancholic inhibition as a possible mode of jouissance of Zulmira