Banca de DEFESA: MARINA MARIA AUSTREGESILO SARAIVA DA SILVA

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STUDENT : MARINA MARIA AUSTREGESILO SARAIVA DA SILVA
DATE: 18/07/2023
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: CAC/UFPE - Google Meet
TITLE:

THE CAMUSIAN DISCOURSE ON SUICIDE: A LOOK AT THE WAYS OF SAYING SUICIDE IN THE WORK A QUEDA

KEY WORDS:

discourse; Camus; suicide; listening 

PAGES: 90
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Lingüística
SUMMARY:

This research proposes to analyze the ways of expressing suicide in the book The fall, written by the philosopher Albert Camus (1913-1960), pointing out ways in which these ways of saying are intertwined with the networks of symbolic constructions crossed by the theme. Points of (de)stabilization of these networks that cross the ways of saying suicide in the referred work and its effects of meaning on the understanding of this practice in the twentieth century and in the contemporary world were outlined. Camus (1913-1960) lived the post-war period and presents his philosophy by elaborating anguishes and dilemmas of his time through literary devices such as short stories and novels, being constituted as a relevant object of study both from a literary and philosophical point of view, provoking a great impact on the construction of 20th century thought (LINS, 2016). From the perspective of Michel Pêcheux (1997; 2008; 2012; 2019), this work seeks to understand the effects of meaning on the term suicide that are constructed in Camus' writing regarding the possible places of this notion in the set of the work. Starting from the relationship between literary discourse and the theoretical constructions of Lacanian psychoanalysis, the understanding of suicide as an act was discussed, tracing a reflection on the effects of the ways of saying suicide analyzed in Camus's work for a questioning-reformulation in the way of understanding - say suicide and its prevention in the National Policy for the Prevention of Self-Mutilation and Suicide. Questioning voluntary death within hegemonic productions of meaning opens space for a polysemic listening to this practice and, thus, to its care strategies. The work of Discourse Analysis (DA) stands out here as a theoretical-analytical device that enables reading gestures about discursive understandings in different orders and whose concreteness is produced through the various materialities produced from a political-ideological place. The DA was brought as a possibility of amplification of the symbolic work through the language making sense, forming notions of its context, of the conditions of discursive production and, consequently, of the historical positions previously assumed. This texture sustains a web of relationships between the linguistic materiality of the texts, the historical processes and the social practices that participate in their production conditions. For analysis, clippings of discursive sequences were outlined within the corpus which touch the construction of the notion of “suicide”. From this movement, it was possible to explore – taking into account different reading gestures and ways of saying about this notion – notes of meaning effects, composing suicide as a movement faceted by polysemic dimensions based on concepts such as enigma, punishment and resentment. Thus, movements of tension and rupture in the network of meanings were promoted, opening questions in front of this practice, placing it as pluralized and distant from a univocal conception of the phenomenon. Given the above, it was possible to build an opening for the understanding of voluntary death as an experience endowed with a semantic heterogeneity, which enables not only the expansion of possible conditioning factors and other possibilities of care, but the encounter with the dimension of acting as language. 

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Interna - 1076102 - FERNANDA CORREA SILVEIRA GALLI
Interna - 1726965 - FABIELE STOCKMANS DE NARDI SOTTILI
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