Abstract

SILVA, João Paulo Nogueira da; SILVA, Carolina Ventura; BRANDAO, Fernando Mateus Viegas  and  PEDROSO, Janari da Silva. Between Pain and Happiness: Subjective Repercussions in the Being Clown. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2022, vol.22, n.3, pp.1124-1142.  Epub May 06, 2024. ISSN 1808-4281.  https://doi.org/10.12957/epp.2022.69562.

It was investigated how pain and joy can influence the construction of being a clown in order to better understand the construction of their subjectivity. Interviews were conducted with ten clowns. Content analysis and the NVivo® software were used as a method to systematize the information present in the participants' speeches into twelve categories, grouped into two thematic axes and analyzed based on its pertinence in the construction of the understanding of being a clown. The results indicated that the pain in the face of affective losses in the process of being a clown goes through the transformation from the tragic to the comic, not to minimize it, but to deal with human finitude through ethics, poetics and life-affirming aesthetics. The transgression of clowning allows you to overcome difficulties and creatively transform them into laughter. It is concluded that being a clown becomes the showcase of human conditions presented through the comic, the tragic, the ridiculous, the losing, the political, the rustic and the being-in-the-world.

Keywords : clown; laugh; happiness; pain; subversion.

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