Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: MARINA MARIA AUSTREGESILO SARAIVA DA SILVA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : MARINA MARIA AUSTREGESILO SARAIVA DA SILVA
DATE: 31/01/2023
LOCAL: https://meet.google.com/bbv-xwmh-avh
TITLE:

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

KEY WORDS:

discourse; Camus; suicide; reading

PAGES: 60
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Lingüística
SUMMARY:

This research proposes to analyze the ways of expressing suicide in the work 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 were outlined that cross the
ways of saying suicide in the referred work and its meaning effects regarding its

understanding in the 20th century and in the contemporaneity. Camus (1913-1960) lived
the post-war period and presents his philosophy by elaborating anxieties 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), we seek to
understand the effects of meaning on the term suicide that are built on Camus's writing
regarding the possible places of this notion in the body of 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- mention suicide and its
prevention in the National Policy for the Prevention of Self-Mutilation and Suicide. 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 is 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 within the
work were outlined 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 effects of meaning composing suicide as
a faceted movement by dimensions of enigma, punishment and judgment. Thus,
movements of tension and rupture in the network of meanings were promoted, opening
questions in the face of this practice, placing it as pluralized and distant from a univocal
conception of the phenomenon.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1726965 - FABIELE STOCKMANS DE NARDI SOTTILI
Externa à Instituição - FERNANDA LUZIA LUNKES