“Has concert for angust": the constitution of the anxious and depressed subject in the letters of Clarice Falcão and Tiago Iorc

Abstract

Considering that anxiety disorder and depression engender contemporary discourses and, consequently, also act in the modulation of current subjectivities, this study aims to investigate how the constitution of the respective enunciating, anxious and depressive subjects occurs in lyrics by Clarice Falcão (album Tem Conserto), as well as Tiago Iorc (Reconstrução album). For this purpose, a corpus was selected, consisting of excerpts of two songs from the respective albums. Methodologically, it is a descriptive-interpretative study, with a qualitative approach, which is based, theoretically, on Foucauldian postulates (1992, 2008), as well as other authors, such as Bauman (2005), Giddens (2002) and Caponi (2013). That said, it was identified that the position of the subject who enunciates in the letters, poetically, prints the effects arising from anxiety disorders and depression through a self-writing, which results in a constitution of the self that reflects a distressed subject, exhausted and unmotivated.