A Morte como acontecimento semiótico: a perspectiva simbólica da banda de Heavy Metal Imago Mortis

Abstract

Death presents itself as the only certainty of our lives, yet we spend almost our entire existence trying to delay it as much as possible. Since language is the symbolic process that conveys all other sciences and also makes us capable of understanding and signifying reality, the concept of death stands as the only unrepresentable element, as a void of meaning, the recipient of numerous semantic investments that seek to fill it unsuccessfully. Thus, this research starts from the concepts of death and dying through the brief approach of excerpts from the history of humanity, from the Stone Age to the Contemporary Age, studying cultural unfoldings that impact on the concepts of life and living and on the modus vivendi of Men of the present time, as the way he assesses the meaning of living, his emotions facing the nearness of death, the change of his valuables during the narrative called "Life". The song lyrics of the Brazilian Heavy Metal band Imago Mortis, released in 2002 by Die Hard Records, entitled "Vida: the play of change", are taken as a work object. For this purpose, bibliographic research was defined as methodology. As main theoretical references are authors of the Semiotic Theory as Greimas, of Psychoanalysis, as Freud, besides other theorists of Psychology, Sociology, Thanatology and Philosophy. As a result of the research it is expected a better understanding about the production of meaning effect that the term death causes for the concept of life.