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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| 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” |
| 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. |
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