Trauma, repetição, esquecimento e elaboração em Cem anos de solidão, de Gabriel García Márquez

Abstract

The paper deals with the transmission between generations of traumas occurred in the origin of the Buendía family, as presented in the book One hundred years of solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez (1967). These traumas concern both the violence against the native population, which occurred in the encounter with the Europeans in the 16th century, and the terror of incestuousness that crosses family relationships since their origin. In line with the idea exposed by Freud in “Remembering, repeating and working through” (1914), that the history that cannot be remembered, although apparently forgotten, is unconsciously repeated in acting out throughout life, the work of García Márquez allows us to follow the repetition of traumas throughout the successive generations of the Buendías, to the point of creating a sensation of circular time in an eternal return to the beginning.