50 tons de cinza a partir da teoria de Sigmund Freud sobre o sadismo e o masoquismo

Abstract

The objective of the present monograph is to analyze the literature within the Erika Leonard Jamess trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey, composed by the books Fifty Shades of Grey (2012), Fifty Shades Darker (2012) and Fifty Shades of Freedom (2012). These books pass through three phases, being exposed on the first one the sadism to the character Anastasia, as she refuses this practice. On the second one the character Grey tries to adapt to the convectional sex and on last one the character Anastasia starts to adapt to some Greys sadomasochistic practices. It will be also considered the book Grey (2015), which brings the homonym character as the narrator of these stories. All of the mentioned books will serve to portray sadomasochistic behavior that will be analyzed from the psychoanalysis point of view and relate them to the sadism and masochism according to Sigmund Freud theories found in the following essays The economic problem of masochism (1924), The three essays on the theory of sexuality (1905) and A child is beaten (1919), along with other articles of the academic field. Once the analysis is done, it is intended to demystify that perversion only exists as a disease and to notice that there are other ways to obtain pleasure aside from the conventional sex proposed by society. Beside this, to indicate the acquirement of pleasure through pain is not something as uncommon as imagined by common sense and, moreover, that BDSM1 behavior, as a consensual practice, may be prosecuted due to traumas or simply a diversified manner of exert sex.