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| Author(s): |
Elisa Mara do Nascimento
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem |
| Defense date: | 2023-06-29 |
| Examining board members: |
Lauro José Siqueira Baldini;
Marcos Aurelio Barbai;
Paulo Sérgio de Souza Júnior
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| Advisor: | Lauro José Siqueira Baldini |
| Abstract | |
The main aim of this study is to explore the central notion of desire in Lacan through operations of metaphor and metonymy, writings of the two ways of articulation between signifiers and their effects of signification. These two ways of arranging signifiers in a chain paved the way for a reflection on desire and its relationship with language, theme already present under other terms in the inaugural book The Interpretation of Dreams (Freud, [1900] 2001) and with the dream-work mechanisms. In our theoretical path, we make use predominantly of some texts from the period of the 1950's published in the collection Écrits (Lacan, (1966) and its surroundings, focusing precisely on the specificities of Lacan's reading of the Saussurian-based structural Linguistics. Throughout this research, from end to end, there are three fundamental impasses: 1) there is a non-harmonic relationship between Linguistics and Psychoanalysis based on a "constant contact" (Milner, 2010) between both of them and also on an irreducible theoretical interest on what is manifested in speech; 2) the collection Écrits and, in general, the theorization in Psychoanalysis preserves a constant movement of reformulation based on the impossibility of saying everything about the unconscious truth; 3) desire is articulated, but not articulable (Lacan, [1961-1962]). On the other hand, a reflection on desire, metaphor, and metonymy also paves the way for a different way of thinking about the role of the own mechanisms of a language in Psychoanalysis, in the manner they necessarily miss the unconscious truth and the effects that may derive from it (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 19/26989-5 - Metaphor and metonymy: desire in the thread of signifiers |
| Grantee: | Elisa Mara Do Nascimento |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |