Post-breakup bruises in the affective-libidinal relationships of the protagonists in the works of Marilene Felinto: melancholy in Obsceno abandono: amor e perda and grief in As Mulheres de Tijucopapo
1. PALAVRAS-CHAVE EM INGLÊS:
Marilene Felinto; Grief; Melancholy; As mulheres de Tijucopapo; Obsceno abandono: amor e perda.
1. This research addresses the themes of mourning and melancholy and the post-term demand of affective-libidinal relationships investigated in the works: the Women of Tijucopapo (1992) and Obscene abandono: amor e perda (2002), by Marilene Felinto. Such matters direct the study of the nexus between the protagonists, their pain after having suffered from the abandonment of their love objects and the feeling of romantic love. We adopted a qualitative approach and proposed an interpretative analysis based on the authors and references of Literary and Cultural Studies and Psychoanalyst Criticism, or even on the literary works that contributed to the discussion. Based on the reflections of Freud, Kehl, Chianca, Lejarraga, Costa, Kristeva, Butler, Stephan and Lorde, the concepts of romantic love, mourning, melancholy and their processes are resumed as a guiding resource for the critical measure of Felinto's poetic prose. We analyze the aesthetic and poetic elements of melancholy and mourning that constitute and represent the revisitation of the past in the process of identity represented in the voices of female characters, in the literary, psychoanalytic and sociocultural context. In this way, the protagonists' discourse, mourning and melancholy are approached as textual agents that establish a bridge between writing and the process of acceptance of the loss of the object. In this perspective, it is worth explaining that Felinto's prose appears as literary art, critical and autonomous, capable of confronting the very perception of sublimation in moments of rupture, on which it is based.