Odorico Paraguassú and Jair Bolsonaro:: discursive pattern and subjection of bodies during health emergencies

• Autor(a) principal: Bender, Mateus
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Outros Autores: Silva, Ronaldo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Anamorphosis (Porto Alegre)
• DOI: 10.21119/anamps.10.2.e1072
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.rdl.org.br/anamps/article/view/1072
• topic: assujeitamento; corpos; narrativas; pandemia; subjetivação; sujeto; cuerpos; narrativas; pandemia; subjetivación; assujeitment; bodies; narratives; pandemics; subjectivation

This paper reflects on the process of subjectification of bodies in the context of 'subjection', using the narratives of the political discourses of two characters: one fictional, Mayor Odorico Paraguaçu, and the other non-fictional, former President Jair Messias Bolsonaro. The historical-social and cultural context portrays the typhus epidemic in the fictional O Bem-Amado and the COVID-19 pandemic in the Brazilian reality, and the narratives of the speeches of these characters are analyzed in the light of the social and political condition of negationism, which highlights a process of standardization and regulation of bodies. Through a bibliographical and theoretical analysis that focuses on Law in Literature, we identified, following Judith Butler, the figure of a narrative ethos of 'subjection' of bodies, involving standardization and regulation on the condition of 'self' and 'being'. We conclude that, within a space-time demarcated by narrative verisimilitude between the political characters, a narratological matrix emerges that acts as a juridical subject. Through the repetition of narratives, this matrix imprints on human consciousness a pattern of social, political and cultural behavior and conduct to be followed, coercively bringing them closer to an ideal model of obedience. There is a structural narrative pattern in the authoritarian characters during the fight against disease, acting under a negationist condition, where they cultivate the rhetoric of 'differentiation' from the 'other', promoting the rejection of 'self' and the non-acceptance of the differences that surround them.