Gesto poético e rasura em Água viva de Clarice Lispector

Abstract

It is known that the writer Clarice Lispector worked for three years in a typescript entitled Objeto gritante, the book was made public in 1973 with the title Água viva. In 1971 text, Lituraterre, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan proposes a new conception of the letter in his teaching by repositioning the place of writing and jouissance in psychoanalysis. In this perspective, it is possible to see a new way of approaching psychoanalysis and the literary field. From the concept of erasure in its relation to the production of the letter, as presented by the psychoanalyst in Lituraterre, and the gesture of the body and writing, worked on by Roland Barthes (1982), this research seeks to develop a reading of the path taken with the letter by the writer Clarice Lispector in Água viva. After years of editing the typescript, Objeto gritante, it seems that Clarice’s writing reached what we call the água viva effect: the letter, in their process of purification, of reduction, turned into the poem in the book Água viva.