Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: ELIZABETH FÁTIMA TEODORO

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : ELIZABETH FÁTIMA TEODORO
DATE: 30/10/2023
TIME: 17:30
LOCAL: meio virtual
TITLE:

Writing the difference: the feminine as the letter of what never ceases to be written

KEY WORDS:

Writing, hysteria, feminine, Freud, theory of representation

PAGES: 141
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Psicologia
SUMMARY:

We begin with the observation that Freudian psychoanalysis is structured around a paradox in which the feminine holds both a position of exclusion and centrality, whether in the constitution of the subject or in Freud's own theory. If this paradox constitutes the material condition of its textual scene, given that something feminine is written in the drama of the cultural fabric, we ask: what does the feminine write when writing itself? This thesis aims to analyze the material conditions that make possible a feminine writing. Our hypothesis posits the feminine text as a palimpsest, suggesting that the writing of the feminine is structured palimpsestically, and its intelligibility requires considering other texts overlaying its primary writing. This primary writing could be thought of as an Oedipal anteriority in Freud, as much as the formal paradox of that which never stops not being written in Lacan. To test our hypothesis, we use a theoretical, bibliographic investigation mainly rooted in psychoanalysis, drawing primarily from the works of Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, and their commentators. For the qualification examination, we engaged with Freud's theory of representation, dialectizing the representable and the unrepresentable, to think about the feminine. We sought the foundations of Freud's notion of representation, revisiting texts deemed pre-psychoanalytic, to show that even at this early stage, a notion of writing is conceivable since the proposed apparatus models indicate a psychic system readable by its effects, like symptoms and dreams. Proceeding through metapsychological texts allowed us to elucidate how the theory of representation becomes intricate, becoming a metapsychological operator alongside the drive theory, and how clinical and theoretical developments took Freud to the limits of representation. This limit enabled us to revisit the term "das Ding" mentioned in the 1895 Project to theoretically articulate it from what we term the question of the letter. We were then able to read the feminine, leading us to conjecture the Feminine Thing and highlighting the challenge in creating emblems of the feminine, making its text enigmatic as expressed by Freud. This led us to envision the feminine, when thought of as a text, resembling a palimpsest where Freud's scraped writing reveals a preceding inscription pointing to something pre-Oedipal. The next steps of our investigation aim to recover aspects of Lacan's theory of the signifier and the theoretical resource of the letter to analyze what can be conjectured about what the feminine writes when writing itself

BANKING MEMBERS:
Interno - 1352910 - WILSON CAMILO CHAVES
Externa ao Programa - 1424013 - MAGALI MILENE SILVA
Externo à Instituição - RICHARD THEISEN SIMANKE - UFJF
Externo à Instituição - MARDEM LEANDRO SILVA - UEMG