ME AND THE OTHER IN “THE MIRROR” BY JOÃO GUIMARÃES ROSA

Authors

  • Vera Lucia Rodella Abriata UNIFRAN – Universidade de Franca

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21709/casa.v8i2.3332

Keywords:

french semiotics, actor, myth, anthropogenesis of the subject

Abstract

Ignacio Assis Silva, in Figurativização e Metamorfose : o mito de Narciso (1995), reflects about the relation between Narcissus myth and the construction of the subject in Jacques Lacan. According to the author, Freud and Lacan read the Ovidian Narcissus “no more as a legend (as it seemed to be for the Greek and Romans), but as a myth: as a figurativization of the anthropogenesis of the subject. Based on Silva’s observation, we established a semiotics reading to the short story “The mirror”, by João Guimarães Rosa, aiming at analysing how the enunciator constructs in a myth poetic way the protagonist actor of the text, reading him also as a figurativization of the anthropogenesis of the subject his relation with the other.

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Published

11/01/2011

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 2 (2010)

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