ALINE DAINEZ DA COSTA

Course
Master's degree
Research title
Agar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?: the myth of the erasure of women's name from history
Research abstract

From the erasure of my first research in philosophy, this letter began. The enigma that my writing dares to pose is: what causes women to have their names erased from history? In an attempt to include myself as another person who constructs a hypothesis as an answer to this question, my writing aims for an unsuspected exit from the inside, from one of the theories that is the target of criticism (not only) from feminisms: psychoanalysis. To this end, based on the works of Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan and their commentators, I gather the necessary support to answer my question. Understanding the reasons for this erasure is impossible, as any answer that is invented will always be a fiction, which is why I construct one. The objective of this work, therefore, is to create a myth, elaborated to the category of a complex, that responds to the erasure of women's names from history with the aim of building a way out of the demand for recognition through the subversion triggered by the passage from one speech to the next. I propose the thesis of the Agar complex to address this structure of disappearance that is repeated with each name erased by the sea and which will be remembered from the grooves that remain as a displacement produced with each mark written in the sand. Since femininity cannot be circumscribed by any definition, this impossibility opens up new worlds, subversions. I operate a subversion, in the fair relationship between the content (erasure of women's names) and the form (letter). Finally, I make the bet that the way out of Agar's complex would be through the analyst's discourse, that is, something unprecedented, a finding, something that subverts previous knowledge, producing non-sense and constituting a new discourse to be agency.

Graduate Advisor
Tessa Moura Lacerda
Date of defense
12/04/2024