THE LONELINESS OF THE “WILD HEART”: CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT THE PSYCHIC PAIN IN THE WORK OF CLARICE LISPECTOR

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Abstract: The book ‘Near to The Wild Heart’ was the first novel of the writer Clarice Lispector, it tells the story of Joana, a character that since childhood shows herself provocative, questioner and uncertain of self and from the own world. Lispector’s character reveals, since the first phrases from the book, a suffering for something that her own can’t understand. A silent and constant pain. It remained for the character, in the meantime, to wait. We seek to analyze the descriptions about the suffering of the character, associating with the psychosocial representation of the woman in the work of Clarice as a representative of The Generation of 45. This article followed a method of documentary analysis, using, in addition to Lispector’s masterpiece, bibliographic studies related to the themes of the research. The character Joana faces a discomfort of imprecise location and undefined location. Yet, a suffering that transgress in time. A wild time is drawn in the work, in which Joana lives in streams of events.  The work is a rupture of linearity. The childhood wouldn’t be only a memory of the character, but the own present alive. We highlight as a latent difficulty the reduced amount of research in this methodological line that could contribute to the inferences about the literary work of Lispector. Certainly Joana faces a process until then unrecognizable in Brazilian literature: the pain of the lack of the “I”. Knowing that something is missing and awaiting the revelation of this lack in silence, reverberates in the character a psychic pain.

Keywords: Clarice Lispector, Literature, Psychology, Mental health.