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| Author(s): |
Patrícia de Oliveira Leme
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: | 2013-01-02 |
| Examining board members: |
Nina Virginia de Araújo Leite;
Flavia Trocoli Xavier da Silva;
Ana Maria Vicentini Ferreira de Azevedo
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| Advisor: | Nina Virginia de Araújo Leite |
| Abstract | |
This work consists in a reading of Jorge Luis Borges' style beginning from a disquieting narrative effect, which is liable to be approached by the psychoanalytic area through the enigmatic concept of the uncanny. For the elaboration of this hypothesis three Borges' short stories were primarily chosen: "La escritura del dios", "La muerte y la brújula" and "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius". Even having made other incursions into the vast borgesian oeuvre, these three narratives constitute the needed frame for the understanding of certain mechanisms of the borgesian style, which in this work figure in the end as elements cause of uncanniness. In the first chapter these texts were boarded as reading scenes in a procedure that aimed to make explicit this disquieting Borges' writing effect, as well as to underline its repercussion in the field of literary criticism. The impact that the borgesian style had on his critics could elucidate some crucial points to the entanglement with the psychoanalytic theory in the posterior chapters, as well as recovering important keys for the reading in the proposed outlining. In the second chapter was promoted a reading of Freud's "The uncanny" through this aspect of the functioning of the borgesian oeuvre: their points of contact could reveal that the concept created by Freud overcomes the boundaries of its own elaboration, making itself present as a place of enunciation of the uncanny rather than a concept closed in its own bases. This movement summoned, in the third chapter, the resumption of the uncanny concept in the seminar, book 10. The anguish, by Jacques Lacan. In this work Lacan promotes an elaboration of a paradigmatic notion for the psychoanalytic field, the object a, starting from the uncanny as an effect of its appearance on the subjective structure. The lacanian theories in his eighteenth seminar were essential in order to compose the entanglement with the literary form, as they shed light on the notions of discourse and writing, especially in his "Lesson on Lituraterre". The establishment of the letter as littoral between knowledge and jouissance, as well as its way of function through the erasure, allowed to sustain this reading hypothesis, which was raised from an effect: there is something that causes uncanniness in Borges' writing and it shows itself beyond the register of the narrated story, constituting a formal operation that produces this writing effect (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 10/04925-0 - The uncanny Borges: from freudian fictions to symbolic fissures. |
| Grantee: | Patrícia de Oliveira Leme |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |