A inocência em retalhos : violações do corpo no prospecto literário de Lima Barreto

• Ano de defesa: 2023
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Valderedo Alves da
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Letras; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Literatura e psicanálise; Barreto, Lima,1881-1922; Perversão sexual; Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939; Perversion; Psychoanalysis; Literature; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/29992

In Studies on Hysteria, the “sexual” appears under the aegis of a real seduction, of a traumatic nature, which, repressed and, therefore, excessively reactive, becomes a component susceptible to radiating strong pathogenic additives. In the first endeavors, Freud still did not perceive the existence of fantasies and infantile sexuality. By verifying that the guidelines of the shared reality do not exist in the unconscious dynamics and that the hysterical explosion was disproportionate to the number of supposedly perverse parents, Freud re-elaborates the trauma theory, assuring that the childhood seduction scenes were, in fact, phantasmatic scenarios erected by the child to shelter his abrupt and brutal jouissance. Despite the abandonment of the occurrence of real abuse, as a (dis)structuring element of sexuality, the father of psychoanalysis takes it up again, in the peregrinations of the second topic, emphasizing the devastating effects of psychic fragmentation, resulting from sexual abuse, experienced by the child , youth or adult. Such conjecture, henceforth, spreads in Laplanchean and Ferenczian lucubrations regarding generalized seduction and traumatic issues arising from real experiences, respectively. If, as Freud (1905) understood, perversion, in general terms, is a reconfiguration of childhood sexuality, watered by perverse polymorphism, surviving in later life, what will differentiate the sexual component of children and the perverse theater of adults is the disposition of agents facing the walls of the body and civilization. In the structurally perverse frame, sexuality, with gears that touch reality, brings into play a desire that, in children's plots, was only of the order of fantasy: the pre-sexual element is the center, the guide, which imperiously governs. The perverse montage, therefore, would result from an impediment of the genial current to subjugate the others, due to an infantile fixation, which would elevate the pregenital current to the place of organizer of sexual life. In this conjecture, pre-genital fantasies are common in both perverts and neurotics – consubstantiating the etiology of conflicts between desire and censorship. Disorganization emerges, in perversion, as the barriers of repression are in tatters, deteriorated by archaic phantasmagorias that, innocuous to the aggregating forces, saturate reality. In other words, the perverse person often resorts to the tyrannical haunts of the past in order to obtain authorization from them, rectilinear access to the other. Based on these reflections, this research focuses on the famous novel Clara dos Anjos (1948), by Lima Barreto, in an attempt to investigate, in an interlocution between literary aesthetics and psychoanalysis, the perverse manifestations of the antagonist, which culminate in a series of abuse (psychological and sexual) inflicted, in the plot, on innocent Clara. Cassi Jones' seductive masks attract the puerile girl who, wrapped in manipulative tricks, becomes entangled in a web of humiliation and whining. As a theoretical-methodological contribution, the study is supported by manuscripts of psychoanalytic science regarding the perverse structure of sexual seductions/abuses, namely: Beating a Child (1924), The Economic Problem of Masochism (1924) and Fetishism (1927), by Sigmund Freud; The Sexual Crime (2015), by Jean Laplanche; and Confusion of tongues between adults and children (1932), by Sándor Ferenczi.