Os clamores estrépitos de uma mulher : as ruinas da maternidade em Anjo Negro, de Nelson Rodrigues

Abstract

Prior to the 20th century, the maternal 'condition', for a long time, was linked to the feminine with the 'help' of moral shackles, which crossed the bodies and tore feminine subjectivities, cultural adornments and the conventional attire of the “perfect mother”. , pure and chaste”, as a path that should be followed to obtain divine redemption. This diagram highlights the violence perpetrated against women, through hierarchical discourses, which aimed to dominate and control women's itineraries in society, especially motherhood. However, amidst the mists of religion and cultural repression, the then science of subjectivity, undertaken by the Viennese neurologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), ended up demolishing some social and religious structures that dealt with the woman's body. From Freudian studies, the figure of the mother begins to be extended and dilated from its denotative meaning, to a perspective based on her individuality, in the search to legitimize sui generis desires. That is, the woman/mother starts to walk the paths of social 'freedom', when she expresses and contests her subjective wishes, such as not 'wanting' to be a mother. This is the case of the character Virgínia, present in the plasmatic tragedy that is driven by curse and anger: Anjo Negro (1946), by Nelson Rodrigues. The protagonist orchestrates, indifferently, a slaughter of her own offspring, for stating that the place of mother does not belong to her, but only that of wife. Virginia, at every moment of the narrative, makes explicit her desire to have Ismael, in a coordinated and symbiotic way, for fear of losing him, being able to go through any hardship with all the fury present in her feminine and even disappearing from herself. , (all) in the name of love for Ismael. In this case, to analyze this character's conduct, we invited the father of Psychoanalysis, as well as post-Freudians with concepts based on the moment when a woman loses her senses and her reason, after losing an object of love, by 'coming across' , unconsciously, with the 'lack' that structures him as a missing subject. Therefore, we will seek to reflect, this research, based on the different expressions of Virginia's desire, which wants to enjoy beyond her motherhood and her femininity. As said by the father of Psychoanalysis, female sexuality and its multiple nuances are far from having a definitive answer, therefore, let us continue to investigate them in search of new keys and decipherments.