Abject and Real processes

• Grant number: 17/09021-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2017
• End date: July 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Nelson da Silva Junior
• Grantee: João Pedro Padula
• Host Institution: Instituto de Psicologia (IP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The following Project studies the concept of Abject and Real, not considered as substances, but as processes. While Abject makes borders to the Subject and the Norm in Júlia Kristeva's works, it shows the normal performative identity fragility in Butler's works, from different epistemological suppositions both authors think the concept within processes that come closer. In the meanwhile Lacan offer us a view of the Real as everything that resists any symbolization, therefore the Real it is what makes a hole in the symbolic at the same time is produced by it. Study these two concepts as processes in those authors works, allow us to research not an hypothesis, but stem from a question: Is it possible to study the concepts Abject and Real as, on in function of the Norm and the other in function of the Symbolical, setting up a theoretical functional analogy of both as processes? (AU)