DO SUJEITO OBSESSIVO NO ROMANCE ANGÚSTIA, DE GRACILIANO RAMOS

OF THE OBSESSIVE INDIVIDUAL IN THE ROMANCE ANGÚSTIA, BY GRACILIANO RAMOS

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze the novel Angústia, by Graciliano Ramos, assuming that its protagonist surprisingly embodies many of the characteristics of an obsessive neurotic, which is attested by literary criticism and other studies. In this aim, we will start from some of Freud's propositions about the figure of the obsessive neurotic, in order to establish some parameters for analyzing the passion of obsession in the novel. In carrying out the analysis, putting discursive semiotics (semiotics of passions and tensive semiotics) and Freudian thought into dialogue, we will study pathetic figures and roles related to obsession in the work, as well as narrative, temporal and enunciative aspects. With this text, we aim both to illustrate that Freud was an excellent reader of pathetic paths, dealing not only with the modal, syntactic and thematic-figurative (semantic) aspects, but also on the tensive aspects of passions, and to expose why Luís da Silva, the protagonist of Angústia, can be seen as an obsessive neurotic, the obsession manifesting itself in the work on a threshold between the passionate and the pathological.