Dimensões do real lacaniano em Meshugá, de Jacques Fux

Abstract

In this thesis, we have as main intention the analysis and deepening of the book entitled Meshugá - um romance sobre a loucura (2016), by the contemporary writer Jacques Fux, having as a guide, from its definition, the search for the Lacanian concept of Real, originating from of psychoanalysis. To this end, we use the work of the writer from Minas Gerais as a resource as a basis and foundation to justify the search, based on the assumption that the writings, in themselves, are crossed by the psychoanalytic discourse. To make the search possible, we use certain precepts of Lacanian materialism, which is presented here as a way of apprehending the Real between the lines of the text. This is a fundamental question we ask ourselves: where is the Real in the eight (actually nine) narratives that make up Meshugá? As it is a frontier work, we start from certain bases, or definitions, in order to approach the text in a more objective way, using authors such as Ricoeur and Lejeune. Therefore, to compose a concept, or a thing, that is as slippery as the Real, we obviously make use of Lacan, for having been the idealizer of the notion, but also of contemporary thinkers, such as Christian Dunker, Vladimir Safatle and Alain Badiou, without leaving aside the trail that makes such questionings possible today, left by Freud. Firstly, I attempt to theoretically apprehend the Real, taking into account the historical bases of its conception, while I connect the concept with literature itself. Then, I aim to approach the author in a broader context, taking the books Antiterapias (2012), Brochadas (2015) and Nobel (2018) as possibilities to reaffirm such bridges between writing and the concept of Real. Finally, I seek to trace an analysis of the characters, separately, in order to constitute a concrete view of the relation between the text and the Real. In short, it is a study that aims to reveal what is behind the veil of fantasy that covers this Real in Fux's writing.