Madame Bovary e a histeria: uma leitura psicanalítica

Abstract

The purpose of this dissertation is to carry out a psychoanalytical reading concerning the protagonist of the literary composition Madame Bovary. This book, written by Gustave Flaubert and published in 1856 same year that Sigmund Freud was born caused a great repercussion in the French society, at that time. Because of that, the author was judged for offence to the public and religious moral . My objective using Ema Bovary as a study object, is because, principally, she presents some characteristics that can be understood, trough the Psychoanalysis like female hysteria. To become this agreement clearly, in this dissertation, I started with freudian´s theory and so I used the contribution from other authors about female psyche constitution and it accidents that cause the hysteric neurosis , after this, I present the Gustave Flaubert´s romance book with a psychoanalytical reading. Ema Bovary is not described by its author as a perfect, spotless and sufferer woman, but yes, she is described like a woman with real human beings characteristics. And these ones (of the protagonist) can have been determinative to this book became a workmanship cousin, until the current days