A plasticidade do Real lacaniano em contos de Clarice Lispector

Abstract

Considering that, progressively, the lacanian materialism has exceeded the boundaries of political philosophy, encompassing the cultural studies and thus the literature, we aim, in this paper, to analyze the short stories Amor, O búfalo and A imitação da rosa, present in the book Laços de família (1960), by Clarice Lispector (1920-1977), according to this theory, so that, we approximate the language and the texts structure to encounters with the Lacanian Real, distinguishing the three dimensions of this instance, to quote Real real, Symbolic real and Imaginary real. We realize that, in the short story Amor, the Real presents its Imaginary facet: all the overflow images intersected and disordered (the blind man chewing gum, the Botanical Garden, for example), little by little, integrate the woman’s horizon of significance; In A imitação da rosa, the protagonist’s daily actions are meticulous, as well as the own textual structure, organized and repetitive, whose intention is to frame the instance’s torment; and, finally in O búfalo the animal’s deadly eye provides the arid, hostile language, filled with brutality, such as the deconstruction caused for Real in its more traumatic layer.