Multiplicidade discursiva em Flannery O’Connor: perspectivas psicossociais

• Autor(a) principal: Pires, Caroline Caputo
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4829
• topic: Psicanálise; Discurso dialógico; Interdisciplinaridade; Grotesco; Psychoanalysis; Dialogic speech; Interdisciplinarity; Grotesque; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS

This work deals with the thematic issue of human beings’ development and social adaptation in Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man is Hard to Find. These topics guide the study towards the identification and questioning of man’s source of anxieties, deformities, grotesqueness, and suffering, in order to discuss the characters’ behavior in relation to themselves and to other members of the society in which they live. Intra and interpersonal relationships between characters in relation to the community are the key elements for the structural and thematic development of the narratives in the short stories “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” “Good Country People,” “The River,” and “The Displaced Person.” From different points of view, the author portrays life in society, through characters who, in identifying themselves with each other, transfer their personal dissatisfaction and consequent repulsion, from situations in their own lives to others who become victims of their moral and physical aggressions. In the light of this, the methodological approach to this study is based on Sigmund Freud’s theories about the unconscious mind and on Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories about the dialogical and interdisciplinary text. Therefore, it is important to understand how the characters relate themselves to the superego, as their attitudes are more consequences than causes of their social inadequacies.