O infamiliar judaísmo em Clarice Lispector

Abstract

This essay aims to analyze some aspects of the triple conjunction between Jewishness, foreignness and Brazilianness in Clarice Lispector. The text Forgiving God is the guide for this discussion, which evolves in the interface of literature and psychoanalysis. The operator of this reading, among other references, is Freud’s 1919 essay Das Unheimliche, which discusses the return of unconscious contents previously kept under repression. Clarice’s fiction offers space for the problematization of a unique kind of Judaism, that belongs to the author's particular situation as a Brazilian and a foreigner.