A desumanização: From Mourning to Melancholia in the Novel by Valter Hugo Mãe

Authors

  • Angélica Catiane da Silva de Freitas Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21165/el.v45i3.613

Keywords:

A desumanização, mourning, melancholia.

Abstract

This paper aims at showing how the character Halldora, narrator-protagonist of the novel A desumanização (2013) by Valter Hugo Mãe, has her feelings changed from sorrow related to mourning to melancholia, caused by other losses which take place after her twin sister’s death: the love of her mother, which becomes rejection; the loss of her innocence, starting his sexual life when she was still a child; a son’s loss; and mainly the loss of her own identity, once the specular relation between the I and the other, with respect to twins, is even stronger. So, this study is based on Sigmund Freud’s distinctions between mourning and melancholia, published in a paper in 1917. It is concluded that the route of the novel’s protagonist converge with the premises of melancholia postulated by him. According to Urania Tourinho Peres (2011), melancholia has been one of the main characteristics of the contemporary subject. Therefore, this study is interested in understanding how recent literature has approached the issue.

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Author Biography

Angélica Catiane da Silva de Freitas, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul

Angélica Catiane da Silva de Freitas

Doutoranda em Letras pela Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, UFMS, campus de Três Lagoas- MS

Aéra de concentração: Estudos Literários

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Endereço: Rua Eco, Número: 1051

Vila Base Aérea- Campo Grande MS

CEP: 79090-340

 

References

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FREUD, S. Luto e melancolia. Tradução, introdução e notas de Marilene Carone. São Paulo: Cosacnaify, 2011. 144 p.

MÃE, V. H. A desumanização. Porto Editora: Portugal, 2013. 238 p.

PERES, U. T. Uma ferida a sangrar- lhe a alma. In: FREUD, S. Luto e melancolia. Tradução, introdução e notas de Marilene Carone. São Paulo: Cosacnaify, 2011. p. 101-137.

Published

2016-11-29

How to Cite

da Silva de Freitas, A. C. (2016). A desumanização: From Mourning to Melancholia in the Novel by Valter Hugo Mãe. Estudos Linguísticos (São Paulo. 1978), 45(3), 1292–1303. https://doi.org/10.21165/el.v45i3.613

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Section

Teoria e Crítica Literária