RHETORICAL STRATEGIES IN THE COMIC STRIP AS TRAUMÁTICAS AVENTURAS DO FILHO DO FREUD

Abstract

Purpose: This research proposes an analysis of comic strips by artist Pacha Urbano, who in his work makes an intertextual relation with psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud. Urban evokes Freud's theories about childhood, dealing humorously with relationship between the father of psychoanalysis and his eldest son Jean Martin. The comic strip is published on Facebook, so it can be qualified as a web strip, a humorous verbal-visual text. Our goal is to identify types of intertextuality that Urbano uses in his work and their rhetorical effect on production of humor. Methods: The corpus analysis will be based on work of authors such as Cavalcante (2013), on text and intertextuality; Aristotle (2015) and Ferreira (2010), on rhetoric; Ramos (2012), on language of comics; and Goldgrup (1989) and Tallaferro (2001), on Freud and his theories. For qualitative analysis that we will develop, we will select five comic strips from Urbano. Results: research is at its beginning, but presence of intertextual relations of co-presence and derivation is already perceived, referring to Freudians concepts as Oedipus complex and development of superego. Conclusion: With theoretical support of Rhetoric and Textual Linguistics, as well as studies of Ramos, which refers to textual reading and aesthetics of comics, we will seek with this research to contribute to understanding of intertextuality as a rhetorical strategy, as well as to expand The linguistic studies for analysis of verbal-visual text.