Corpo ausente: trauma e luto nos contos "O velório" e "Joana", de Bernardo Kucinski

Abstract

Abstract: In this work, we analyzed how the processes of trauma and mourning motivated by the disappearance of the bodies of the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship victims take place in the short stories “O velório” and “Joana”, by Bernardo Kucinski. Based on the episodes presented by the narrators, we identified and interpreted at least two ways of dealing with the traumatic experience: some people acknowledge the loss and complete the grieving process, specifically the characters from the short story; others refuse to accept it and insist on looking for the murdered loved one, as happened with the protagonist Joana, in the second short story. In order to base our analytical propositions, we relied on the considerations of Reis Filho (2014), as a historiographical reference; Seligmann-Silva (2000), on the concept of trauma; and Freud (2010), on the grieving process. Finally, we hope to contribute to the critical fortune on Bernardo Kucinski's work and, especially, on the collection Você vai voltar pra mim e outros contos (2014).

Keywords: Trauma; Grief; Civil-military dictatorship; Bernardo Kucinski.