Sobre avessos e demônios: discurso e perversão em Lavoura Arcaica, de Raduan Nassar

Abstract

The present thesis has as object of study the narrative Lavoura Arcaica, by Raduan Nassar, which presents a family in the countryside that follows strict moral and religious rules. In this context, André, one of the siblings, abandons his home to escape from those orders, besides his incestuous passion for his own sister, Ana. Following this scenario, the objective of this thesis was to make an analysis about how the moral context, present in André’s large family through his father’s sermons, contributes to his perversions development, beside the importance of the discourses that are crossed in this environment. In order to make this study, we approached some psychoanalysis authors, like Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, and the critics Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze, to contextualize how the perversions and their complexities present themselves in the individuals, exemplifying these topics through literary narratives. Furthermore, we used the Comparative Literature method to analyze the literary words that someway would be connected to Lavoura Arcaica, using researchers like Tânia Carvalhal and Tiphaine Samouyault. In the end of this thesis, it was possible to notice how the moral and discursive context in which the characters are situated contributes to their development as individuals, and a person would hardly be able to live following rules and standards when they are against their wishes.