Abstract
This play contributes to a better understanding of the psychological mechanism of behavior with respect to recurrent auditory hallucinations and the traumatic origin that can cause it, such as experiencing a violent event. This causes an emotional blockage of fear in the actor, due to the defense mechanism of denial, with repercussions on memory and negative feelings of guilt and shame. The author proposes an adequate emotional management for the protagonist, Lázaro. The solution is aimed at making him dare to know the truth and accept it following current clinical psychological praxis, without taking refuge in the protection of others. In this way, he will improve and may even reduce the emotional state and the hallucination. In the analysis of the work, various contents are decoded. First, the planes of reality: the physical world, the fantasy world and the inner world of the characters. Second, the trauma lodged in the subconscious and auditory hallucination. Third, relationship of defense mechanisms, emotional intelligence and memory. Fourth, plot about love relationships. Fifth, the psychological mechanisms in favor of justice and truth. It is proposed how this drama could have contributed to the social imaginary to raise awareness about the emotional management of individuals. The results indicate that this symbolic and complex work of form and content also contributes to solving other human dilemmas such as the limitation to know reality, in addition to the feelings and emotions in the subconscious, as well as to accept them. It is discovered how to cope with an ethical sense of justice in a society in democratic transition, with still open wounds that derive from a war. Also, there is the aspiration to a humane society on the part of the author.
Highlights
Aristotle approaches catharsis, the liberation of repressed emotions, through the genre of drama
This purification is insufficient to psychologically cure a trauma, but it serves as a reminder and to make the audience realise that some event they have experienced is negative, painful and has serious emotional effects on them when they relive it
A baseline bibliographic review was carried out, and the work was hermeneutically analysed according to various paradigms in chronological for its richness in terms of register, content and construct: Plato's gnoseological conception (Republic, VII), Aristotle’s catharsis (Poetics), Saussure’s semiotics (1945), Sigmund Freud’s concept of trauma (1920), negation described by Anna Freud (1936), ACT therapy (Hayes, 1984; Hayes et al, 1999), and the management of emotions using Goleman’s (1995) model of emotional intelligence
Summary
Aristotle approaches catharsis (in the treatise of Poetic), the liberation of repressed emotions, through the genre of drama. Catharsis occurs when the audience identifies with the profound emotions evoked by the characters, producing an effect of purification. This purification is insufficient to psychologically cure a trauma, but it serves as a reminder and to make the audience realise that some event they have experienced is negative, painful and has serious emotional effects on them when they relive it. In the case of individual with low self-esteem is characterized by having feelings of selfunderestimation (Lancelle, 2002). The feeling of guilt is linked to religious parameters The feeling of guilt is linked to religious parameters (Freud, 1975, p. 430)
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