Nihilism and Desire in "The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas": Literature and Psychoanalysis- Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures

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Nihilism and Desire in "The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas": Literature and Psychoanalysis

Author：Andrea Almeida Campos Time：2023-08-07 Click：

Nihilism and Desire in "The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas": Literature and Psychoanalysis

Andrea Almeida Campos

Catholic University of Pernambuco

Page 077-088

Abstract: Literature and psychoanalysis are put into dialogue in order to perform an innovative reading of Machado de Assis’s The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, which is considered one of his masterpieces, alongside Quincas Borba and Dom Casmurro. The psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan is used as a theoretical reference.

Keywords: Machado de Assis, Literature and Psychoanalysis, memory, desire, experimentalism

DOI: 10.53397/hunnu.jflc.202301009

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