LITERATURE, CRITICISM AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

A READING OF CLARICE LISPECTOR’S CREATION PROCESS

Abstract

This paper contributes to the studies on the literary text and the act of creation, proposing, as an interpretative bias, the studies of Genetic Criticism and Psychoanalysis, fields of study that see the text no longer in formal stagnation, but in the movement of its elaboration. The analysis to be carried out expands our observation not only for the published work, but to the process of its construction that includes from the writer's mental operations to the notes on the banks of the book. We will focus on manuscripts of The hour of the star by Clarice Lispector, analyzing some creative elements that allow us to verify other meanings of interpretation of the published work, as well as revealing unsaid erasures in the creation process. The methods that underlie our analysis are the bibliographic and exploratory, since it seeks to identify little systematized knowledge about literary manuscripts. This object of study that is not yet sufficiently investigated and known by the traditional critic of literature. In order to better understand the possible relationships between the fields of study, we will be guided in Willemart (2005), Grésillion (2007), Zular (2010), Gotlib (2013), Vidal (2017), Santos (2021) e Pellegrino (1988). In investigating the details of Clarice Lispector's archives of life, thought and language, this research becomes a source of knowledge of what is underlies the writing, which in opposition to textual formality, enables a horizon where we glimpse a “secret zone”: of dark desires, unsaid and silences.