Colapso e reorganização : o ensaio sobre a cegueira e Fight club à luz do materialismo lacaniano

Abstract

This essay aims to reflect on existing traumatic events in the novels Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira, by José Saramago and Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk, mainly focusing on the collapse and restructuring of reality in these narratives. We will seek to understand the means and reasons that lead the characters of these novels to experience the ravages of organized social reality and how the reconstruction of these realities occurs. In order to understand the relationship between subject and society we will launch up some theoretical tools like the triad: Real, Symbolic and Imaginary, as well as the concepts of Big Other and Capitone, instruments coming from Lacanian psychoanalysis and reread here through the prism of Slavoj i ek, whose materialism Lacanian, proposes a collective level reading. In addition, we will propose a dialogue between the two novels aiming to understand the closeness between the texts, discussing the means and reasons for this contact.