THE SAYING OF/IN THE SUICIDAL LETTER: THE DISCURSIVE FUNCTIONING OF THE SELF AND THE OTHER
Keywords: Discourse Analysis; Psychoanalysis; Farewell letter/posts; Suicide.
ABSTRACT:
The present study, linked to the area Linguistic process studies and the line of research Studies of discursive processes, of the Graduate Program in Linguistics of the University of Mato Grosso (PPGL/UNEMAT), aimed to understand the historical-ideological functioning materialized in the farewell letter/post of the suicidal subject, Yago Oliveira. To this end, it was inscribed in the theoretical and methodological principles of Discourse Analysis, Pêcheux (1969) and Orlandi (1983), to try to understand the process of subjecting/overdetermining the subject to the historical-ideological processes marked in the letter's saying; and in Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysis to give to understand the mode of inscription and subjectivation of the suicidal subject to the order of the real and the imaginary, materialized in the symbolic of the letter, as manifestation of the letter of the unconscious, marked by the dictates of the great Other. We then anchor ourselves in the theoretical-epistemological tripod of Discourse Analysis, namely Linguistics, Historical Materialism and Psychoanalysis, to try to understand the processes that mark the subject, the language(gem) and the story in the gesture of authorship of the suicide letter, which currently circulates, as a rule, in the digital environment, which produces a process of exposure of the subject with its glories and ills. In this view, we gave to understand the process of embodiment of the suicidal subject, the body of the letter/post and the family/social body as a place of constitution and subjecting, dictated by subjective processes of identification and determinations, by the capitalist State, the subject and the senses, because the body functions as a map that traces the (un)paths to the subject, materializing belonging and exclusion, acceptance and retroelement, triumphal glory and the death of the signifier. In this operation, in Yago's posts and farewell letter, what (not) can be said, materializing everything and nothing more than what the subject can mean, thus, our gesture sought to understand the processes of identification/articulation of the suicidal subject, marked by the signifier as a record of the symbolic, the real and the imaginary, in order to understand the functioning of the suicidal subject by an order that is not just the support of the letter of the letter, mutilations, states of mood changes, since this corporeity/textuality comes from elsewhere, comes from the letter of the unconscious and, therefore, does not stand as evidence, distancing itself from the notion of full object and the subject of knowledge.