Cultura e desrazão: uma história de auto-de-fé de Elias Canetti

• Autor(a) principal: Salvador, Fabiano Massarro
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/15093
• topic: Elias Canetti; Psicanálise; Secessão vienense; Loucura; Psychoanalysis; Vienna secession; Madness; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

The questioning which takes course throughout the pages of this work is: What could there be of such great impact in Auto-de-Fé? In the process of the present work, Elias Canetti‟s novel provoked many doubts, reflections and problems; we realized that this author‟s work is involved by many problematics. In order to analyze his work, it was necessary to trail another path besides that of Psychoanalysis. The undertaking, in this sense, was made up of the historical analysis of different cultural periods, specially German ones. I thus ventured into the origin of the German Romantic Period, its history and main artists. Analyzing this movement, I noticed that it is very interesting and rich, principally for having been a time that served as stimulus to Freud. Even so, I realized that the journey would be incomplete if I focused only on Romantism. The questions of beautiful and sublime give space to other themes, more subjective ones, which are strange to the being. I believed it would be important to establish an interface with the Expressionist Movement, in which madness and the esthetics concerning the body would be quite different. The body, in the Expressionist movement, brought forth the marks of a shattered subjectivity. These choices were made with an aim to promote a wide reflection about the historical context in which Auto-de-Fé was imagined and developed by Canetti. This work was created when the austro-germanic culture was, in a certain way, expiring. The lights of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were beginning to die out, the Weimar Republic was a caricature of power encarnation. The growing antissemitism in Eastern European countries, with the uprising of the German National Socialist Party, already antecipating the sinister aspects to come, the Viennese nihilism showing that the Austrian society was sunk in obsolete values concerning man, art and society, and also the gathering of important arts names at this notable period. This and other factors led us to the conclusion that tha analysis of madness, of which Peter Kien will be a victim in Auto-de-Fé, is a sad metaphor of what was to come. Understanding the nearly prophetical aspect of Canetti‟s words would only be possible if we had as a guide the pages of German cultural history, a culture marked by the sign of dualism