De Eros a homoerotismo: fragmentos de percursos discursivos

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to understand how Eros' discursive notions can move through discourses in different genres, contexts, places and perspectives. The theoretical and methodological approach is fundamentally interdisciplinary, taking into account Charaudeau's discursive notions (1983). The study is divided into two parts and four chapters (two chapters in each part). The first part is devoted to Greek Antiquity, covering mainly a period between the 9th century BC and the 4th century BC. The first chapter discusses some discursive paths of Eros by Greek poetics throughout the Archaic (9th century BC - 6th century BC) and Classical (5th century BC) periods in the history of Greece. The second chapter discusses the perspectives of a set of philosophical works by Plato (4th century BC), focusing on the notions of Eros and the discussions necessary to understand them. The second part of the study, then, is focused on Contemporaneity, covering mainly perspectives of the 20th and 21st centuries. The third chapter aims to understand the notions of Eros as addressed by psychoanalytic studies, focusing on Freud's works. Lastly, the fourth chapter discusses some notions of homoeroticism: first, raising terminological discussions; afterwards on an experimental basis, applying a use of "homoeroticism" in which Eros, eroticism and homoeroticism are incorporated by the discursive relations articulated there. From Eros to homoeroticism, the study covers the discourses and fragmentations of their multiple paths, indicating, ultimately, the weakness of strict terminological categories.