O ato de escrever : uma leitura à luz da psicanálise sobre os contornos do traumático a partir da obra “Atos humanos”

Abstract

The present study has as its objective to lean over the book “Human acts” written by Han Kang, with the intention of interrogating the writing as a resource that permits referring to a collective trauma, from the own contours of literature to deal with, in a second time, what is wide open by a traumatic event. The setting to which the book refers deals with a particularly noteworthy episode during south-korean’s dictatorship at the end of the 20th century. Whose effects, from the author’s perspective, are referenced through the characters and the signifiers that bring her stories to life, based on real events, but which culminate in fiction. The work, therefore, uses freudian and lacanian psychoanalytic theoretical foundations, based on the notions of trauma and the real, to engage in dialogue with what is presented by Kang, against the backdrop of Gwangju in 1980 – the “where” and “when” the aforementioned episode takes place – which, one could say, is the protagonist of the entire story.