Arquivo de lembranças e o efeito metafórico da violência

Abstract

This PhD dissertation, aligned with French Discourse Analysis (FDA) studies, presents as its object of analysis the Spanish documentary “Los Monstruos de mi casa”, produced in 2010, which is composed by multiple materialities of the signifier on violence against children and teenagers. We take this object as an archive of memories from which is possible to address issues and problems about the domains of the Memory and the Real. When working with this archive, we establish as datacut three animations that, along the audiovisual production, serve as transitions between the movie cuts. Departing from this datacut, we aimed to answer our research question: How does the cited documentary produce violence by a metaphorical effect/functioning? The defined cuts show the breakage of a social and historically constructed Imaginary inside a Christian Discourse Formation (DF) about what it means to be a father/mother, about what is a family, a house or what it means to be at home, what is to be/become a monster. Nevertheless, we know that the limits of a DF are not impermeable and leave gaps. Remains, clues and footsteps open up a space for the slip of the tongue, mistake and the own impossibility of meaning, that is, towards the Real.