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ARAUJO, Anderson Barbosa de; PEREIRA, Jéssyca Alana Oliveira  e  LUCENA, Polyana Luz de. A Phenomenological-Existential Understanding in Sylvia Plath's "The Glass Dome". Rev. Subj. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.spe, pp.1-12. ISSN 2359-0769.  https://doi.org/10.5020/23590777.rs.v21iesp1.e10664.

Literature seems to be a fruitful path for theoretical investigations of existential-phenomenological psychology. Therefore, this study aimed to understand The Glass Dome, the only published novel by Sylvia Plath, who is described as one of the most relevant American poets of the 20th century, and a great name in the literary movement of confessionalism. The novel, which is said to be the prose extension of her poetry, revolves around Esther Greenwood, a prodigious and quite ambitious young woman who at 17 leaves her hometown for an internship in New York, and follows throughout the story for a deep journey inside the character's conflicting thoughts and feelings in face of her life direction, a path full of losses and encounters, the need for suicide and psychiatric hospitalization. Given this context and the theoretical defense of a phenomenological study methodology, an understanding of the work was carried out, which enabled the unveiling of a series of meanings, which, in the light of existential analysis, taking as its central point the character Esther, revealed themes of interest, namely: the experience of inauthenticity; the problematic of the meaning of existence; choice and nausea; and the updating of existence against the movement of consciousness, themes that could be discussed from the phenomena of interest present in the novel and the existentialist theoretical reflections. With this, it was possible to see the relevance of Plath's work for the discussion of relevant themes in the scope of existential-phenomenological psychology in addition to the need for new studies that focus on other relevant themes in the work and not addressed in this study.

Palavras-chave : phenomenology; existentialism; Sylvia Plath; The glass dome.

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