AMBIVALENT FORMATION OF THE SUBJECT'S AUTONOMY AND ITS TRAGIC RUPTURE ON DE MIM JA NEM SE LEMBRA

Abstract

In this paper, it is aimed to investigate the ambivalently psychological construction of the protagonist Jose Celio in the novel De mim ja nem se lembra, by Luiz Ruffato. Jose Celio's perception, regarding his migration to Greater Sao Paulo and his relation there, is inscribed on an instinct duality sense, denying, therefore, a manichean point of view of the world. In his letters sent to his mother, which are the core of the narrative, the protagonist's affective ambiguities, and the conflicted association of what is around him, are manifested: for example, at the same time that he misses his family, he edifies other bonds; at the same time that his work retracts his hours of joy, the labor itself provides him his political education in the middle of a dictatorship. The feeling of helplessness, the loss of a stable place, provokes, as well, through Jose Celio's partial porosity, his individual autonomy. Based on the ideas of Sigmund Freud (1986) about the feeling of helplessness, of Enrico Testa (2019) on the permeability of the literary characters, of Franco Moretti regarding the Bildungsroman and the texts of the novels critical fortune, it is shown how the nostalgia and the potent will of building the future, which is ambiguously ruptured by his early death, coexist in the registration of the protagonist's psychology through the letters to his mother.