The intimate and the public in saying: speeches, narratives and others

discursos, narrativas e outridades

Abstract

Abstract

In this article I propose a discussion on how it is possible to distinguish the intimate and the public in the context of saying. To address this problem, I want to develop an authorial hypothesis, which assumes that, in multiple sayings, the intimate and the public can be differentiated, if we can scrutinize in a saying what is narrated in it and what is discoursed in it. Based on linguistic-philosophical discussions about the distinction between narratives and discourses; and in the wake of Merleau-Ponty's readings of the psychoanalytic notion of autonomous symbolism as a drive, I propose to show that, in the field of speech, intimacy and coexistence are the two faces with which others present themselves, since, In the field of saying, others are nothing more than drives that speak and narrate. Hence, I propose the distinction between discursive otherness and narrative otherness. Intimacy concerns discursive otherness. Coexistence is related to other narratives. In both cases, it is an attempt to think about what is said beyond models based on the idea of ​​self-evidence.