The erotic in the Brazilian imagination: Words and corporeality

Authors

  • Pierre Normando Normando Gomes da Silva
  • Eunice Simões Lins Gomes

Abstract

We understand that speech acts are constituted by social fields, and social fields are subjectified by utterances. Language and culture are intertwined in a scheme of intersubjective and reciprocal formation. On this assumption, we aim to identify, in the Brazilian social imagination, wow “certain words” define the corporeality of individuals experiencing their emotions. We do this from the social and psychoanalytic analysis of the definition of term erotic in versions of the Aurelio Ferreira Dictionary’s. In the lexicon, the erotic is considered as something dirty, a particular emotion of the female body, mestizo, poor and pagan. Thus, a cultural mindset that makes the erotic emotion infamous and the feeling of a cerebral-affective phenomenon activates the fascination with death: the boy becomes equal to the excrement and desexualized life.

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Published

2016-12-22

How to Cite

GOMES DA SILVA, Pierre Normando Normando; LINS GOMES, Eunice Simões. The erotic in the Brazilian imagination: Words and corporeality. Religare, [S. l.], v. 7, n. 2, 2016. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/religare/article/view/9789. Acesso em: 16 aug. 2026.

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Interfaces