Notas sobre o herói contemporâneo e os limites do discurso terapêutico

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Galvão, Michelle Prata
• Orientador(a): Cunha, Eduardo Leal
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Sergipe
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Psicologia Social
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Psicologia social; Heróis; Heróis na comunicação de massa; Subjetividade; Personagens e características; Psicoterapia; Herói; Contemporaneidade; Discurso terapêutico; Narrativa do sofrimento; Modos de subjetivação
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Hero; Contemporaneity; Narcissism; Therapeutic discourse; Narrative of suffering; Modes of subjectivity
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/6021

The following research emerged out of the remark that the main characters from major success TV shows for the last decade are – at first sight – quite unlike from what we usually comprehend as television’s “good guys”. They are contemporary beings frequently portrayed as complicated, unhappy and morally wrong. This description strongly separates them from attributes normally connected to the word “hero”: greatness, honour, strength, character, wisdom, dexterity, value, leadership. On behalf of understanding the possibility of the emergence and the popularization of this profile, and also to investigate if truly exists something distinguishing those from ulterior heroes, the hero’s trace was sought into humanity’s history, since its birth as a myth until its present consolidation. For the purpose of limning this profile, the current paper presents the analysis of two contemporary characters, videlicet, Tony Soprano, from The Sopranos, and Walter White, from Breaking Bad. At last, these analyses are articulated within the therapeutic discourse supported by suffering’s narrative. Considering the socio-historical conditions which allowed therapeutics’ discourse appearance and consolidation, as well as elements pointing at its ‘exhaustion’ while (being) a privileged subjectification discourse.