Abstract

SAVI, Emylle  and  WEINMANN, Amadeu de Oliveira. LITERATURE: EFFECT OF AN EXPERIENCE OR EXPERIENCE OF EFFECT?. Psicol. clin. [online]. 2022, vol.34, n.3, pp.465-485.  Epub Aug 02, 2024. ISSN 0103-5665.  https://doi.org/10.33208/pc1980-5438v0034n03a02.

Many literary works have the power of touching deep psychic layers, which may spark an interest about whoever authors that work. This paper aims to start a discussion about distinct ways of thinking of art and of the artist, from psychoanalysis. We used as trigger of this discussion a methodological reflection aroused by two texts by Freud about literature. The first one focus on the artist: “Dostoevsky and parricide”; the second, on the artistic work: “Delusions and dreams in Jensen’s Gradiva”. From this methodological discussion, it is possible to think how psychoanalysis can, through its methods – loose attention and free association –, listen to the work of art without incurring into the application of concepts to the work or to the author. To enrich this methodological discussion, we propose a reflection about the work of one of the most consecrated writers in history: Virginia Woolf. By choosing this author, we thought about the vigor of her work and the effects that it evokes in its readers; that vigor calls upon our listening and instigates our theoretical pillars, taking us out of our comfort zone and putting us under a constant movement of (re)thinking psychoanalysis.

Keywords : psychoanalysis; method; literature; Virginia Woolf.

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