Oscar Wilde e Dorian Gray: sobre a experiência da perda, da dor e do luto

Abstract

This is a research on mourning and melancholy, the challenges of going through a mourning process and the refusal to accept aging and the passage of time.The research was inspired in psychoanalytic theory and on the reading of the novel The portrait of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, whose main character, Dorian Gray refused to grow old. Some aspects of Oscar Wilde´s life history were extracted from his biograpy by Daniel Salvatore Schiffer and from Tzvetan Todorov´s book Les Aventuriers de la Absolu to illuminate the the same problematic of the difficulty to enter in the work of mourning, leading to melancholy and to the empoverishment of creativity. The mourning ellaboration process and the kleinian theory of the depressive position were closely related to symbolization and to creativity, through the kleinian theory of positions and through the work of Hanna Segal and Ronald Britton