O inconsciente e a língua de sinais : a (não)exclusividade da dimensão sonora na constituição do sujeito.

Abstract

The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the sound dimension in the subjective constitution of deaf people based on the recognition of sign language as a means of expressing the formations of the unconscious. We started by questioning the sound dimension, verifying the exclusivity or not of this dimension in the clinical operation with deaf subjects who speak the Brazilian Sign Language (Libras). These subjects who express themselves in this language modality, whose sonority is not an imperative condition, provoke a theoretical reflection. After all, would psychoanalytic theory be able to offer a support that would allow a therapeutic path for these subjects through listening to the unconscious through a language of space-visual modality? We asked if the field of language in psychoanalysis could favor the inclusion of a theoretical articulation that supports a clinical practice conducted in sign language. We carried out an investigation that first covered Freudian theory on the definition of the unconscious and secondly, Lacanian theory in its encounter with Saussure. In this path, we asked for the presence of the Other as a condition for the subjective constitution of the subject in order to advance the discussion beyond the phonetic dimension. Finally, we present the discussion about the notion of letter in order to argue the possibility of reading the unconscious, even in front of deaf people who speak Libras. We use some fragments of clinical cases that together with other elements on video make up our series that enabled the articulation between our question and the theoretical points on which we support. In this way, we will conduct a conceptual discussion about the recognition of the sound dimension of the unconscious in the subjective constitution, tangent to the viability of welcoming the deaf person who speaks Libras. It is relevant to point out the need to open up the psychoanalytic field for these issues that arise, arising from the clinic with Libras-speaking deaf people. We recognize in the singular of each subject, their response to castration, marked in the real of the body by sensory deafness, whose language is expressed gesturally, involving us in the investigation of the hypothesis that the unconscious can be read in the linguistic manifestations of a sign language.