Da “voz em off” à palavra escrita: o testemunho do corpo falante em O Escafandro e a Borboleta.

Abstract

In this thesis, we analyze the case, narrated in the book and in the film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, an autobiographical work that presents the drama of the French journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor of Elle magazine.At age 43, she suffered a rare type of stroke - the locked-in syndrome - which resulted in a paralyzed, amorphous body, reduced toone move-ment: the blinking of the left eye.Despite his inert body and discredited by the discourse of medicine, he proved subversive and desiring.Because there are few published psychoanalysis works and it is a rare case of extreme paralysis, we decided to investigate the invention of the speaker, in face of the confrontation with the real of the body.For analysis, we use the uncon-scious work of reading.We start from the hypothesis that the AVC confronted Bauby with the real.To do so, we turn to the principles of the clinic and the paradigm of the first and second Lacanian clinic as a key and tool for reading and analyzing the case, we turn to some psycho-analytic concepts:Other, fantasy, anguish, humor and the talking body, we present some clinical cases, in order to clarify how each speaking being defends himself of the real and clarify the concept and etiology of the stroke according to the medical discourse.For the analysis of the case itself, we divide into three moments: the moment of seeing, the time to understand and the moment to conclude.In the end, we find that Bauby invented a singular way out of confrontation with the real and the fall of semblants: another writing of himself (biography), he used writing, humor and fantasy.Thus he built new name, new work, and new body out of the body in his know how to do with the real.