A PSYCANALYTICAL STUDY OF DEVASTATION IN THE READING CLUB LYGIA FAGUNDES TELLES
Devastation; Reading Club; Psychoanalysis; Lygia Fagundes Telles
The devastation in the mother-daughter relationship is a psychoanalytic concept developed by Jacques Lacan and that can be provisionally understood as a maternal attack on the daughter's femininity. Our research project outlines a study of this concept based on a methodological proposal that we are developing: The reading club as a device for psychoanalytic research.
In this device, the literature and in particular some texts by the writer Lygia Fagundes Telles will be taken as an object of study for the realization of psychoanalytic research. After having done a careful review of the methodology that deals with the development of research in psychoanalysis, we advance that until now, reading clubs have not been used for the production of research. Now, reading clubs bring together reading subjects, but also and mainly speaking subjects. In these spaces, people get together to discuss what they read and what they felt during the reading.
Thus, the reading club aims to be a place where we can hear what the participants have to say, using as collection tools: recordings of meetings and record of notes, to intervene, stimulate and participate as researchers / mediators in what to be spoken will have meaning for our investigation. This work, therefore, aims to create, test and improve a device for psychoanalytic research, investigating how a concept, such as the devastation in the mother-daughter relationship, can be operative and appear in discussions based on the reading of a literary text.