Autobiografia de meu pai: quando a escrita de si só é possível através do outro

Abstract

The present work proposes to deepen the notion of autobiography while constituted through a relationship of alterity. From the book written by Pierre Pachet (1994), called "Autobiographie de mon père", the psychoanalyst Pontalis (1991) develops an analysis of the writing of self that is made possible only through the intermediary of another that inhabits us, a certain distance promoted by fiction. In the face of a traumatic experience of loss or mourning, the subject finds himself unable to appropriate his history. Writers, in the intimate experience of first-person account, seek enunciative strategies to elaborate their pain. This work discusses the extent to which the "I" and "you" and the "I" and "he" can merge to the point of blurring the limits of biography and autobiography. In addition, one is prepared to think that perhaps the experience of itself can only be narrated where the boundaries are lost, in the frontier spaces that reveal the force of an existence.