The Infectious feast of Moths: the acidic sweetness of obsession spreads, stinkingly, in Silvina Ocampo's The Sugar House

o dulçor ácido da obsessão propaga-se, fetidamente, n'A casa de açúcar, de Silvina Ocampo

Abstract

Detached from the devastating shackles of his own body, in the evil spells of early times, the little infant darts his object relations from the fragmentation and incorporation of his fragile Ego. In this way, the baby tries, imperiously, to color the internal and external world that (dis)supports him, leaving his own being to the mercy. Thus, faced with this complex defense mechanism, an ostensible double-edged sword, aware of the dissociative and dominating powers of the child, we glimpse the elaborate work of Silvina Ocampo (1982), in her short story the house of sugar, invokes the archaic rales of infancy. In this sense, in Ocampo's labyrinthine plot, the visceral calendas of fantasy and psychosis are orchestrated which, by embarking on the narrative structures of the fantastic, allow for a faithful and singular translation of the primitive storms of childhood. Therefore, using the theoretical apparatus of (post)freudian psychoanalysis, especially Kleinian writings, to analyze the ocampian character.