Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: CAIO HENRIQUE MEDEIROS SOUSA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE: CAIO HENRIQUE MEDEIROS SOUSA
DATA: 31/10/2024
HORA: 16:00
LOCAL: QUALIFICAÇÃO DE DISSERTAÇÃO
TÍTULO: Beyond the conscious: daemons and the psyche in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials
PALAVRAS-CHAVES: Fantasy; Philip Pullman; His Dark Materials; Daemons; Psychoanalytic Criticism; Second Topography.
PÁGINAS: 47
GRANDE ÁREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
ÁREA: Letras
RESUMO:

The present partial Master’s Thesis describes the results of the first half of the research on the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials (1995-2000), by Philip Pullman, whose main objective is to investigate the presence of daemons in the narrative and their relation with the psyche of characters. These creatures are connected with their humans to an extent that feelings and sensations are shared, and this raises the question of what is their role when considering the intricacies of the human mind. More specifically, our approach is based on the psychoanalytic studies on literature, and the purpose of the investigation is to compare daemons with the three psychic instances described by Sigmund Freud ([1899] 2019); ([1914] 2010); ([1923] 2011), namely the Id, the Ego and the Superego. This study is of qualitative nature (Kauark, Manhães and Medeiros, 2010), developed through bibliographical research (Gil, 2007). For the development of the inquiry, our text has been divided into four chapters, of which we have written the second and the third so far. The first describes the relation between Literature, fantasy and psychoanalysis, the second presents a study on the development of the Second Topography by Freud, and how contemporary scholars apprehend this set of theories. For the third chapter, we present a State of the Art on Pullman`s works, in order to select papers that might be useful to our examination. Then, in chapter four we analyze daemons and their possible parallels with the Second Topography. In relation to the former, names such as Cosentino (2004), Green (2005), Bergeret (2006), Bomfim (2008), Lima (2009), Vilaça (2019), Ahumada (2019), and Castelhano & Leite (2022) were fundamental to the comprehension of the instances of the mind. As for chapter three, we have investigated what are the recurrent academic approaches on His Dark Materials and which one of those might be of use to our purposes. Moreover, we have acknowledged some of the research gaps that are yet to be explored within this field.

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