Uma convergência entre naturalismo e psicanálise, mediante análise de um personagem de Aluísio Azevedo

Abstract

This paper intends to present a convergence between naturalism and psychoanalysis - art and "science" - through a behaviorist analysis of Amâncio de Vasconcelos, protagonist of Casa de Pensão, a novel by Aluísio de Azevedo. Centrally based upon Freud's psychoanalytic theory and referring to sociocultural elements from the 19th century which considerably contributed shape the character's behavior, such analysis is centered on the following characteristics: the affective-sexual compulsion and insatiability, whose origins, we suppose, are in his childhood and can be verified through his life, due to his not overcoming Oedipus complex; and the hypocrisy, in both family and social environments, as a result of the determinations imposed by the superego, moral representative of culture.