Abstract

Normal 0 21 The present article proposes to articulate narratives produced by melancholic discourse in the analytic setting and some of the literary narratives which focus the theme of sertao aproaching ways of constructing narrative and psychic organization strategies. We will focus the works of Graciliano Ramos, more particularly his books Infância. The first one will be taken as an ilustration of the response the subject produces facing a narcisistic investmente that, not fullfilling his goal of softening the real, formalized an alliance between lucidity (as an identitary mark) and the attitude of suspicious facing language itself. In a similar way to what Freud had said about melancholic discourse, the scenery is of a war. The description of such ‘other’ that does not accept idealization are found again, alegorically in the discourses related to the homeland and to the sertao .. Keywords : melancholy, Graciliano Ramos, lucidity, narratives.

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