Letras feridas, escritas que puls(ão)am: Sylvia Plath e o recurso sublimatório

Abstract

This dissertation aims to understand aspects of sublimation and autobiographical writing, through the writings of Sylvia Plath, her diaries (The Diaries of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962) and the most emblematic poems of the poetry collection Ariel. Based on psychoanalytic theory, our proposal is to think about the non-safeguarding of the resource sublimatory in the face of the artist's suffering and to understand what moves it and sustains the creative process to understand the aspects that stand in the way of the artist in the face of creation. We also show the intricacies of death drives in the sublimation, its deadly effects and the existence of too much intensity in the activity of the writer, an ineffable power, the results of which were letters that pulsate the vitality, annihilation and female oppression. Finally, think about literature autobiographical as the production of collective memory about history, especially in relation to the modernity that marks a writing that makes the world a personal and intimate experience.