Freud e Lobato: metafísica política dos personagens

Abstract

In this article I examine the first publication by Monteiro Lobato. In conducting an analysis of O Saci-Pererê: resultado de um inquérito [Saci-Pererê ( a black, pipe-smoking one-legged character from Brazilian folklore): the result of an inquiry] I seek to discern the features of what can be described as the political metaphysics of character, by entering into a dialogue with the ideas of Freud. My aim is to set out from a private standpoint to understand Brazil, and perhaps by conducting a more comprehensive research, to establish the connecting links between Monteiro Lobato, Mario Peixoto, Lúcio Cardoso and Mario Pedrosa. What these writers have in common is their expressed views on the problem of cruelty which can be addressed in psychoanalytical terms and rejects the traditional ways in which this problem was addressed, which simply involved making substantive alterations to the prevailing status quo.