Investigações literárias: terapias e encenações do feminino

Abstract

The three independent 'Literary Investigations' that are part of this work were composed mainly under the inspiration of methodical-therapeutic approach developed by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein to deal with philosophical problems. Hence the intentional reference of our 'Literary Investigations' to the Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, your main posthumously published work. Our Investigations take as object of study the different female performances and the gender relations that constitute them in/from the following tales: 'Braiding' by the Chilean writer María Luisa Bombal; 'A chicken' by the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector; and 'Dangerous garments' by the Argentine writer Silvina Ocampo. To do this, unlike a hermeneutic interpretive attitude of searching for hidden meanings in the literary text - and guiding themselves by a re-signified Wittgensteinian therapeutic attitude based on some family resemblances it shares with the Derrida's deconstructionist attitude - the three therapies are developed in accordance to spectral dispersion movements that stage the female gender, from manifest traces of these performances in the narrative acts of the elected tales. So, from these traces, we go through the remissions dispersed in the archives of cultural practices that have been carried out in several fields and contexts of human activities of different forms of life. The aim of a spectral dispersion therapy of female gender performances is to describe narrative strategies manifested in the tales and some of their meaning performative effects on the body of a therapist reader who intends to investigate cultural meanings of these effects, when she/he goes through the uses and remissions of gender tensions in other different language games that intertwine themselves in a network whose nodes are connected by family resemblances