Sobre Ismálias e as (im)possibilidades de desejo de amar, além-mar

escrita clínica

Abstract

Alluding to the poet from Minas Gerais, Alphonsus de Guimarães, who published Ismália, a poem about a woman who goes mad and, imprisoned in a tower, dreams of the possibility of getting closer to the two moons she sees: one in the sea, the other in the sky. The poem brings duality at all times, antagonistic desires: division between sky and sea, body and soul. This article seeks to investigate, through clinical listening, what reflects the Brazilian reality in the unique psychic reality, which is marked by class struggle and structural racism. Two women traversed by their social marks find themselves in very different positions, but both share the same office. This article envisages the meeting between Camila and Glória as a meeting between Ismálias, whose blindness or refusal in relation to the political dimension that psychoanalytic ethics implies has serious and profound consequences, whether for one, for the other or for the analytic duo.