THE GETTING OFF: THE FALSE SELF IN “LOVE”, BY CLARICE LISPECTOR

Authors

  • Luan Felipe de Souza Junqueira Universidade de São Paulo
  • Fabio Scorsolini-Comin Universidade de São Paulo

Abstract

The aim of this theoretical study is to understand, through the psychoanalytic framework, how the psychic illness is narrated in the short story Amor, present in the book Laços de família, published in 1960 by Clarice Lispector. In methodological terms, psychoanalysis was used as an interpretive reference, mainly based on the concept of false self developed by the English psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott. The false self, in the protagonist Ana, reveals itself as a skillful psychic functioning to defend her from exposure to the true self, removing her spontaneous gesture and her own contact with her desires. In Ana, the revelation brought about by the tram’s descent point, in which she is forced to abandon what she had built with a view to her self-preservation, is what triggers in the character the possibility of a new existence, more authentic and more real.

Author Biographies

Luan Felipe de Souza Junqueira, Universidade de São Paulo

Psicólogo. Mestre em Ciências pelo Programa de Pós-graduação em Enfermagem Psiquiátrica da Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo.

Fabio Scorsolini-Comin, Universidade de São Paulo

Psicólogo, Mestre e Doutor em Psicologia pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Professor do Departamento de Enfermagem Psiquiátrica e do Programa de Pós-graduação em Enfermagem Psiquiátrica da Escola de Enfermaem de Riberão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo (EERP-USP). 

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Published

2021-09-29

Issue

Vol. 43 (2021)

Section

Artigos Tema Livre

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