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VII Congresso de Iniciação Científica

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Universidade Federal do Piauí

Centro de Ciências Humanas e Letras- CCHL
Literatura anglofona
Professor: Sebastião
Aluno:Felipe Macedo Carneiro

THE STORY AND THE DREAM IN A PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVE

INTRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT
What we are supposed to defend is the idea that Ravi is not awake,
The story occurs in India, in a game of hide and seeks, in this
but sleeping due to a delirium and, all of the facts of the story is
game we find a boy called Ravi and his range of feelings. We
only a dream. Then according to Freud, the dream is the real road
can see clearly he is a sensitive and imaginative child who
to the knowledge of the unconscious. And also the website book of
realizes he is inferior and misunderstood. Related to their
the dream explains that Dreaming with hiding places symbolizes
family he feels a sense of unease. The studies of the dream
embarrassment in some situations. We may be feeling constrained
appear before the studies of psychoanalysis, but we can
because of something we said or did and even by some action of
compare these two sciences by the uses of of those in the
someone very close to us, and it is what we can realize, a child who
literature. Anita Desai could give us a broad field of
feels insignificant. As it is not easy to find an answer about what
possibilities, than we can think and until dream about the
happened to Ravi we try to draw a line of possibilities to
infinite possibilities. According to Ferreira Netto (2010), the
understand what were that events. He feels a spider tickles the
psychoanalysis took great advantage of the cultural
back of his neck, then that’s the time he starts his dream because,
achievements at the time of its discovery, and also proved to
it is not clear, but we can consider he was bitten by that spider. The
be generous, providing new contributions to the human
Poecilotheria regalis is one of the most dangerous spiders of the
psyche.
world and, it is common in India seeing it because it is responsible
OBJECTIVES for delusion, maybe the reason for the situation that takes place in
the story of Desai.

FINAL REGARDS
Bautista (2003) says that through the Freud researches the art
became an access road to the artist unconsciousness. His
sublimation theory that is a defense mechanism. For instance, is
a process related to explain the human behavior through finding
a booster element to the actions.

MÉTODOS REFERENCES
BAUTISTA, Maira P. L. A Sublimação nas obras de arte. CienteFico. Ano III,
v. I,Salvador, jan/jun 2003

FERREIRA NETTO, Geraldino Alves. Doze Lições sobre Freud&Lacan.

Campinas-SP: Pontes, 2010.

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Eyerman, Ron and Jamison, Andrew 1991. Social movements: a cognitive

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