Name: CLEIDSON FRISSO BRAZ
Publication date: 17/12/2025
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| FABIOLA SIMAO PADILHA TREFZGER | Examinador Interno |
| MARCELO FERRAZ DE PAULA | Examinador Externo |
| MARCELO PAIVA DE SOUZA | Examinador Externo |
| NELSON MARTINELLI FILHO | Presidente |
| VITOR CEI SANTOS | Examinador Interno |
Summary: This thesis discusses love poems produced by political prisoners during the Brazilian
military dictatorship. In light of theories on memory, philosophy, history, and
documentary productions that contribute to understanding the history of those who
resisted the military regime, it examines the conditions under which these love poems
were written, strongly shaped by the oppressive context that persisted in Brazil from
1964 to 1985. Through the integration of these studies, the research aims to
understand how these fields engage with literary criticism of testimony, particularly that
devoted to poetry, based on the premise that literature constitutes a privileged space
for processing historical experience. Within this framework, studies in psychoanalysis
occupy a prominent place in the research corpus, highlighting the close relationship
between the poetic text, its limits and impasses, as well as its possibilities for
representation through the mechanism of sublimation, specifically regarding love
poetry. The widespread occurrence of this theme in poetic texts produced in prison
during the Brazilian military dictatorship is presented, and, bringing together the
discussions raised by the aforementioned fields of study, the thesis focuses on the
analysis of four poems by political prisoners: Aybirê Ferreira de Sá (1981), Alex Polari
(1978), Gilney Viana (2011), and Athanásio Orth (1978). It is concluded that love
poems produced by political prisoners during the Brazilian military dictatorship can
function as a means of working through suffering and preventing psychic deterioration,
thereby countering the death drive inherent to trauma and engaging more deeply with
the pleasure principle, making testimonial writing a potential avenue for reorganizing
the symbolic world, which was profoundly disrupted by violence.
