A fantasia e o Outro como saber no samba: uma via possível para sublimação

Abstract

This research pertains to the field of studies which attempt to build a connection between art and psychoanalysis. We support the idea that the arts invariably encompass an understanding and express something about the subject in its relation to the Other. This way they always present an important contribution to the psychoanalytic field. Therefore, what is meant is not to apply psychoanalysis to art, but rather to listen to, to observe and to think art in order to provide developments to the field of Freudian theory. Taking this perspective into account, our research into samba and its cultural and discoursive features unfolded a fruitful material to help one understand the relation between two important concepts in the psychoanalytic field : fantasy and sublimation. The subject, understood from the standpoint of Lacanian psychoanalysis, relies on fantasy as an unreplaceable resource for structuring his/her reality and insertion in the social bond. This research perceives that the knowledge contained in the social field of samba remarkably elucidates how the significants which circulate in this environment, and are present in the great Other as knowledge in this relational space, can be conveyed from a subject to the other, so as to compose the fantasy elaborations of the same, enabling this way a route to the sublimatory process