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| Author(s): |
Ane Ribeiro Patti
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Ribeirão Preto. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (PCARP/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2014-04-09 |
| Examining board members: |
Lucília Maria Abrahão e Sousa;
Lauro José Siqueira Baldini;
Vanise Gomes de Medeiros;
Soraya Maria Romano Pacifico
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| Advisor: | Lucília Maria Abrahão e Sousa |
| Abstract | |
In this dissertation we intend to work on the issue concerning the vivification of the dead in light of the theoretical assumptions of French Discourse Analysis as proposed by Michel Pêcheux and of Psychoanalys founded by Sigmund Freud and re-read by Jacques Lacan. The theme is presented as a development of our Master\'s thesis (PATTI, 2009), where the mortification of the living, represented by the use of children and young adolescents by drug trafficking, showed to be one of the effects of the neoliberal capitalist discourse that produces a logic of commodification in which even subjects are taken as objects. In this investigation, what interests us is to make a turn in this researching look and study the reverse side of this process of mortification of the living, that is, we now intend to evaluate a discursive site that inscribes reborn dolls (reborn babies) made alive, in which the dead is discoursified as being alive, (re) dressed as being alive and inscribed in the social realm (cross)dressed as a living being. We bet on the fact that it is by ideology that a subject finds evidence of meaning and begins to naturalize it, and, to that end, there is a necessary silencing that enables meanings to emerge and form a chain in a certain way and not in another: thus it is possible for humans to \"mortify\" the \"living\" and \"vivify\" the \"dead\". Our corpus was all collected from the Worldwide Web, from specialized blogs and websites on the topic of reborn babies, which are dolls that resemble a human baby. All during 2012, we collected discourses from rebornees (consumers of the product who call themselves \"reborns mothers\") and from reborners (artisan/artists whot make reborn babies) that would address the meanings of making/using reborn babies. There is a hypothesis that such practice silences the child and the mother in fact, since the doll and the pseudo-mother remain in their place. The latter plays seriously and often discursifies that inanimate object as a symptom of our contemporaneity as an answer to the discontentment in culture produced by the discourse of capitalism. A whole market is moved by these discourses, which is supported by social networks and e-commerce websites. Rebornees have parties and meetings and choose godparents, etc. At a second moment, we observe the regularity of some signifiers, such as real, realism, perfection, happiness, deceiving, playing, maternity, etc., which we take as discursive entries to discuss and promote initial interpretation gestures about the theme, intertwined to the theory that supports this thesis. We will work with some concepts of the analytical and discursive device and some concepts of Psychoanalysis, keeping in sight the possibilities and impossibilities of this interface, such as the subject of the discourse and the subject of the unconscious, silence to DA and Psychoanalysis, ideology stemming from the Althusserian and Pecheutian re-reading, production conditions and interdiscourse / discursive memory designed in the conceptual bulge of the second period of DA and some contemporary re-readings about the concepts. The dissertation also intends to show how these discourses on reborn(ity) are closely affiliated to the current production conditions in the contexture of the Internet, globalization, late capitalism, market relations, promoting effects of re-signification (emptying) of the traditional meanings of being a mother, a child, a friend in favor of appearance relations, one of the facets of the Society of the Spectacle, debordianly speaking. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/01395-3 - SILENCE AND ARCHIVE ON WEB: THE DEAD LIKE THE LIVING |
| Grantee: | Ane Ribeiro Patti |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |