Open AccessO Natal, a alquimia, o tempo, e o espírito: ou Um (neo)fantástico conto de Jorge de Sena
Author(s) -
Marcelo Pacheco Soares
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
e-letras com vida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2184-4097
DOI - 10.53943/elcv.0219_10
Subject(s) - alchemy , narrative , dream , psychoanalytic theory , mirroring , humanities , literature , criticism , art , ideology , philosophy , psychoanalysis , sociology , psychology , communication , neuroscience , politics , political science , law
That article focuses on the narrative «O urso, a pantufa, o quadro, e o coronel», a tale of Jorge de Sena written in 1961. Faced with a paradoxical narrative that never allows us to conclude on what is dream or what is vigil on the night described by the protagonist, our criticism is obliged to adopt a fragmentary methodology of thought to raise hypotheses of reading for the text. In mirroring the title of the Senian tale that coordinates four elements in its composition, we arrive at a thematic quartet that allows us to go through at least its perimeter: his Christmas productions, Jung’s psychoanalytic studies on alchemy, the ideology of António Ferro in salazarism, and the distension of time in narrative.