Dor e paixão na escrita autobiográfica de Frida Kahlo

Abstract

Seek along this research an analysis of intimate writing that Frida Kahlo, already established internationally as Mexican artist, over the last ten years of her life she devoted herself to writing her Diary. It is analyzed from the theoretical contribution of Philippe Lejeune, exponent researcher in this area, the main characteristics of a confessional text, as well as the motivations for the activity of a diarist. Through his postulations was possible to understand the structure, operation and historical changes of the autobiographical genre to the present day. It was noticed in the kahlina diegesis a strong tendency to confront the issues of emancipation Mexican people from her scathing critique of the colonial-imperialist discourse as well as the appreciation of Latin America as cultural authority in the face of North American and European oppressing and colonizing representations. To do so, we use the theoretical reflections derived mainly from Homi Bhabha. Emerges from kahlina confessional text symbols representing the subjective universe of the artist by establishing a dialogue with her intense biography and pictorial work. Therefore, it is urgent theoretical tool of Gilbert Durand and Paul Ricoeur from the concepts of representation, interpretation and imagination as a subjective construction of reality. It is noteworthy that the origin of this contribution is in itself psychoanalytic thinking and doing. Considering the psychoanalysis as a key to understand Kahlo’s verbal representation which emerges from her intimate writing as well as its major contributors, Freud and Jung.