Escorpião encravado na sua própria ferida: a ideia de fim na poética de Torquato Neto

Abstract

Marginal poetry featured a plurality of voices and what defined this multiplicity of themes and authors was the common political and cultural moment that marked Brazil in 1970. This work aims to investigate how one of the members of this movement, Torquato Neto, used the term “end” in his work to explore the melancholy not only of the lyrical self, but also of society. Since the lyricist has an abundance of writings, many of which were not published during his lifetime, the study of his poetry consists in a selective analysis Accordingly, both song lyrics and poems cover the aspects explored in this research. That said, the “end” will be addressed as an allusion to anguish and melancholy, abstractions explored by Sigmund Freud in “Mourning and Melancholia”, Eduardo Lourenço in “Mythology of Saudade”, and Giorgio Agamben in Stanzas: The Word and the Ghost in Western Culture. Thus, through the bibliographic method and a qualitative approach, anguish will be addressed as a sign of danger, which is directed at the ego, that is, a desire that has no object other than the self.