La obscenidad del amor: Nan Goldin y Roland Barthes. Figuras y fragmentos del discurso amoroso a finales del siglo XX / The obscenity of love: Nan Goldin and Roland Barthes. Figures and fragments of amorous discourse in the late twentieth century
2015; University of Santiago; Volume: 24; Issue: 24 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
0718-5022
Autores Tópico(s)Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism
ResumoResumen : Este articulo esta formulado como un dialogo ficticio sobre la cuestion del amor entre las obras Fragmentos de un discurso amoroso (1977) y La Camara lucida (1980) de Roland Barthes y The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1986) –en su version impresa– de Nan Goldin con el objetivo de resaltar paralelismos y diferencias en sus formas de representarla y de ligarla a su practica intelectual o artistica. Ambos autores realizaron sus obras a finales de los setenta y durante las decada de los ochenta. Periodo marcado por una crisis de valores morales y religiosos, por movimientos de liberacion de los homosexuales y por la pandemia del sida. Esta cuestion no solo es tratada como un objeto de conocimiento, sino tambien como una experiencia que exhibe una logica irreductible a la teoria, que se expresa de forma fragmentaria y en primera persona, que se plasma en narrativas e imaginarios concretos y que se manifiesta en una oscilacion entre lo que la palabra articula y lo que la fotografia pone en evidencia como limite del lenguaje. El psicoanalisis lacaniano sirve como enlace teorico entre este inconsciente optico y lo real o entre el discurso amoroso y lo inexpresable. Palabras clave : Amor, Barthes, Goldin, Fotografia, Psicoanalisis. Abstract : This article is a fictional dialogue about love between Fragmentos de un discurso amoroso (1977) and La camara lucida (1980) by Roland Barthes, on the one hand, and The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1986) -in its printed version– by Nan Goldin. The objective is to foreground parallels and contrasts in their ways of representing love, while linking these to the author’s intellectual and artistic practices. Both authors wrote these works at the end of the 1970s and during the 1980s. This period is marked by a crisis in moral and religious values, the gay movement and the AIDS epidemic. The authors not only address these themes with the purpose of understanding them. They also conceive of them as experiences that cannot be reduced to any one theory, are expressed in fragmentary form, in the first person, are reflected in concrete narratives and imaginaries, and make manifest the tensions between what ‘the word’ can express and the ways that photography exhibits the limits of language. Lacanian psychoanalysis serves as the theoretical link between this optic unconscious and the Real or between the discourse of love and the inexpressible. Keywords : Love, Goldin, Barthes, Photography, Psychoanalysis
Referência(s)