Fantasmas como sinalizadores do invisível: A teoria da máscara de Yeats revisitada

Autores

  • Hedwig Schwall University of Leuven

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/gqtreh72

Palavras-chave:

Yeats, Agamben, Merleau-Ponty, Paul Schilder, Sailing to Byzantium

Resumo

Yeats frequentemente enfatiza a importância vital da imagem “única” que ajuda a pessoa a separar as “circunstâncias sem sentido” de suas verdadeiras paixões. Como a definição do poeta dessa “imagem secreta e vitalícia” surpreendentemente se encaixa no estudo de Agamben sobre o fantasma, este artigo explora como esse fenômeno psicológico funciona nos escritos do poeta. Partindo da ideia de Lacan de que o assim chamado indivíduo é uma interação entre o Outro inconsciente, o eu dividido ou social, os outros (pessoas e objetos na vida de uma pessoa) e o eu interior, esta contribuição analisa dez poemas-chave nos quais o fantasma forma uma ponte entre os mundos interior e exterior, entre os aspectos visíveis e invisíveis do corpo. Uma forma especial de fantasma é a imagem do corpo na qual Paul Schilder situa as comunicações libidinais, que, por sua vez, são retomadas na ideia de “a carne” de Merleau-Ponty. Como muitos poemas são ambientados em um contexto escolar, Yeats mostra que conflitos pessoais secretos podem ser simultaneamente estudados e cantados. 

Biografia do Autor

  • Hedwig Schwall, University of Leuven

    Emerita professor with formal duties at the University of Leuven. She publishes on Irish literature, psychoanalysis and art. She teaches an interdisciplinary course on “Art in Europe: a History of Emotions” in which literature, psychoanalysis and art history are combined, and serves on the editorial board of the series Art and Religion (http://www.peeters-leuven.be/) In 2019 she edited The Danger and the Glory (Arlen House), an anthology of 60 contributions from Irish fiction writers about the art of writing (also available at https://kaleidoscope.efacis.eu/); its second instalment was About Europe in Ireland | Kaleidoscope II (efacis.eu), the third will focus on “Faith, spirituality and art: new perspectives for the twenty-first century?”. She was director of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies from its foundation (2010) till 2021. She has been a founding member of the European  RISE, the Review of Irish Studies in Europe and is on the advisory board of the IUR, Nordic Irish Studies, Estudios irlandeses, Studi irlandesi, the Brazilian Journal for Irish Studies, etc. She is also series editor of Irish Studies in Europe and has published widely on Irish fiction and other genres. After having led three international translation projects she is now preparing a book on parent-child relations in contemporary Irish fiction. She runs the EFACIS Book club and is co-organizer of the international EFACIS PhD seminar.

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Publicado

19-10-2024

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v. 26 n. 2 (2024): ABEI Journal 26.2

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Copyright (c) 2024 Hedwig Schwall

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Schwall, H. (2024). Fantasmas como sinalizadores do invisível: A teoria da máscara de Yeats revisitada. ABEI Journal, 26(2), 53-72. https://doi.org/10.11606/gqtreh72