G. H. and the infamiliar: an experience of vertigo

Abstract

This paper analyzes the phenomenon of the unfamiliar from Freud and Lacan through the journey of the narrative voice of the protagonist in the novel “A paixão segundo G. H” A passion according to G. H., by Clarice Lispector. The phenomenon of the unfamiliar indicates something important for the psychoanalytic experience and, considering the aesthetic field, apprehends, through the narrative discourse in literary writing, what appears in it as an effect of a psychic manifestation and what transcends that point, expanding the range possibilities for research and transmission of psychoanalysis. In this way, with the reading-listening of the narrative of the character G. H., we consider that the phenomenon of the unfamiliar appears in several fragments, revealing the presence of the return of the repressed with Freud and the encounter with the Real from Lacan, in which the cockroach stands out as a central object for the emergence of such events.