Banca de DEFESA: Mariah Neves Guerra

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STUDENT : Mariah Neves Guerra
DATE: 23/01/2023
TIME: 09:15
LOCAL: A definir (online)
TITLE:

Images and writings for you, reader: a feminist essay on the freudian uncanny in the face of abjection in Diane Arbus's photographs.

KEY WORDS:

abjection, uncanny, feminist essay, psychoanalysis, Diane Arbus, photography.

PAGES: 220
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Psicologia
SUMMARY:

Based on the premise of indissolubility between form and content (Adorno, 2003/1954), I make this writing an essay of criticism of the scientific hegemonic self, a tear in cisheteropatriarchal and colonial production. I bring in bodies of texts and images the relevance of localized knowledge (Haraway, 1995/1987). The research takes place from my experience with abjection (Butler, 2009) in the photographic work of Diane Arbus, the unfolding of this experience being a writing tensioned by the contributions of feminism on the text “The Uncanny” by Freud (1919/2019) ; thus, uncanny and abject meet in Arbus's photos. With this, the central question of the research is: how can abjection provoke new readings of psychoanalysis, especially on the freudian notion of uncanny? Diane Arbus (1923-1971) was an american photographer who portrayed the social extremes of her time, from aristocrats and famous people to marginalized people, dissidents, located at social extremes, called freaks by her. The photographer made use of the tensioning of social norms, giving new frameworks both to dissident and marginalized bodies, as well as ironizing the supposed humans that fit into familiar norms. The poetics of the Arbus effect takes place in the widening of the margins and in the profusion of ambiguities, produced by meticulous photographic techniques through which she photographed the moment of gap between intention and effect, spontaneity and pose of her freaks. Finally, I propose that the uncanny – now traversed by the precariousness that the abject makes explicit – becomes constituted by abandonment, and no longer by castration; relocating the concept of the uncanny through photographs, feminisms and decolonial theories, in order to stress Freud's patriarchal and colonial roots, I restore the helplessness that constitutes him. The experience with Arbus makes the abject strange by framing it in the photographs, as it also makes strange what was once familiar. The abject portrayed as strange makes a margin for the norm, constituting it from the outside by expulsion and, at the same time, destabilizing it in us, the reader.

BANKING MEMBERS:
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Presidente - 1517148 - DANIELA SCHEINKMAN CHATELARD
Externo ao Programa - 1775476 - HERIVELTO PEREIRA DE SOUZA
Externa à Instituição - LEA CARNEIRO SILVEIRA - UFLA