THE CONTEMPORARY AND THE STRANGE FAMILIAR:: APPROACHES BASED ON THE UTTERANCE “I WOULD PREFER NOT TO”, BY BARTLEBY

This article relates the utterance “I would prefer not to” by Herman Melville’s character Bartleby with Sigmund Freud’s concept of the familiar stranger. The work begins with Giorgio Agamben’s notion of the contemporary and then develops Gilles Deleuze’s reading of Bartleby, for whom literature poin...

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Autores: Maliska, Maurício Eugênio, Venera, José Isaías
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina (UNISUL)
Repositorio:Linguagem em (Dis)curso (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:portaldeperiodicos.animaeducacao.com.br:article/26938
Acceso en línea:https://portaldeperiodicos.animaeducacao.com.br/index.php/Linguagem_Discurso/article/view/26938
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Psicanálise
Estranho familiar
Contemporâneo
Bartleby
“Preferiria não”.
Psychoanalysis
Familiar stranger
Contemporary
“I would prefer not to”
Psicoanálisis
El siniestro
Contemporáneo
“Preferiría no hacerlo”
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Sumario:This article relates the utterance “I would prefer not to” by Herman Melville’s character Bartleby with Sigmund Freud’s concept of the familiar stranger. The work begins with Giorgio Agamben’s notion of the contemporary and then develops Gilles Deleuze’s reading of Bartleby, for whom literature points to a writing that incessantly tries to escape from forms of representation. Thus, Bartleby functions for the narrator as a familiar stranger who disturbs him so much that it is necessary to write about him. In other words, this unrepresentable and disturbing element makes us contemporary by producing something new that leads the present beyond itself.