Uma possível face para o horror: psicanálise, mal-estar e literatura

Abstract

This article proposes to discuss horror, taking it as a common theme between psychoanalysis and literature, seeking, likewise, to endorse its relevance in the current literary scene. Initially, we refer to the theme of horror, highlighting the context of Gothic literature in order to emphasize its relationship with the emergence of psychoanalysis itself, since we understand that both share the same context and describe a conflicting movement typical of modern transformations. Using Freudian psychoanalysis and the contributions of contemporary commentators as a theoretical basis, we then seek to demonstrate the displacements of horror in our culture, understanding that, today, it is also spread across different fields of literary production. To do so, we resort to the conceptual notion of “malaise” [Unbehagen] and, in the end, we reaffirm this displacement through the work of French writer Édouard Louis.