Sobre a angústia: entre literatura fantástica e psicanálise.

Abstract

Psychoanalysis and literature have always developed a specific relationship whether in the understanding of clinical cases or in the interpretation of literary works. This relationship extends to other authors and researchers of psychoanalytic theory emphasizing the connection existing between both. Based on the concept of anguish proposed by Lacan, our proposal is based on a theoretical work that traces the relationship between two perspectives on the phenomenon of the uncany, using as basis the theory of Tzvetan Todorov on fantastic literature and the concept of anguish in Lacan developed from the stranger in Freud. Todorov brings at least four definitions for the concept of fantastic in literature, which are the pure stranger, the fantastic stranger; the wonderful fantastic and the marvelous pure, thus emerging from these concepts the question of the unrepresentable in fantastic literature, one of the key pieces for understanding the anguish in literature. We propose, then, to propose that the relation between fantastic literature and the experience of anguish will be based on a homology. Therefore, we start from the definition of the uncany proposed by Freud as well as the proposal by Todorov allowing us to approach the narrative of the fantastic literature and the concept of ghost, thus defining the concept of anguish in Lacan. Thus, a homology relating the three real, symbolic and imaginary registers defining anguish as a disturbance of the imaginary relations is present in the relation existing with the literary narrative. From this, the fantastic literature is more prone to pave the way for a pertinent reflection on the anguish highlighting the social aspect of literature.