Entre I'ange et la poupée
1996; Linguagem: Inglês
10.25071/1923-9408.25049
ISSN1923-9408
Autores Tópico(s)Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
ResumoBetween the angel and the doll On a boat sailing between Europe and South America, in a series of conversations with her guardian angel, agirl ofseven or eight comes to see the doll her grandmother has given her as a demon and harbinger of her own death.With its mechanical step, artificial smile, made-up eyes, and Sunday best, the doll fills the girl with terror.When her grandmother asks her why she is not playing with the doll, the girl, who is sensitive to her grandmother's feelings, responds that the doll has to sleep -aresponse she knows will make her look like agood mother.Meanwhile the girl plots to get rid of the doll and eventually contrives an accident in which the doll falls overboard.In "The Uncanny," Sigmund Freud plays down the role of the doll Olympia in creating the atmosphere of dread that surrounds E.T.A Hoffrnan's story "The Sand-Man.""Children have no fear of their dolls coming to life," writes Freud.Instead, Freud traces the uncanny back to the (male) subject's fear of the mother's body.Gloria Escomel's text reimagines the uncanny from the perspective of a specifically female subject whose fears are precisely related to her doll coming to life; the girl fears becoming the doll as much as she fears becoming its mother.Unable to fathom the regime which would oblige her to become both at once, the girl decides to grow up just enough to become a boy but not enough to become an adult.Like the sea-crossing and the guardian angel, she situates herself in-between, as a kind of intermediary figure .C'est dans le bateau qui nous ramenait d'Europe en Amerique du Sud, au cours de ces interminables jours entre mer et del, que je renouai mes conversations avec mon ange gardien.Je devais avoir sept ou huit ans.Pour me faire succombera la tentation du jeu, Abuelita, ma grand-mere espagnole, qui s'etait embarquee avec nous a Barcelone, m'avait offert lors d'une escale aux lIes Canaries, une poupee aussi grande que moi, en vetements du dimanche, une poupee effrayante qui se tenait debout
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