Interventions on language: the production of oblivion in colony-brasilis

Abstract

Starting from the lacanian notion that the unconscious is structured as a language, the intention of this article is to reflect from the formal prohibition of the Língua Geral Brasílica that occurred in the 18th century and its replacement by the Portuguese language as a result of a directive from the empire colonial. It is a psychoanalytic essay on this event, with contributions from linguistics, anthropology, sociology, decolonial studies, Tupi grammar and parallel texts on the subject. Not restricted to a historical debate, it is signaled how a forbidden language continues, unconsciously, being spoken, extracting from this an articulation between psychoanalysis, the unconscious and the radicality of the symbolic.