Subjective constitution and vocal materialities: when words fail

Abstract

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1984-8420.2016v17n2p34

Analyzing the speech of a female inmate from Madre Pelletier Female Penitentiary, from Porto Alegre (RS), our objective is to think about the relation between maternity and prison through the theoretical apparatus of the French Discourse Analysis. We observed how the trespassing of the prison’s structure in the speech of the inmate occurs in the significant materiality. We pay special attention to the repetition of words, which is understood as an intradiscursive excess (ERNST, 2009). This excess refers to the operation of the relation between unconsciousness and ideology. We consider that the excess points to something from the Real that cannot be materialized in the Symbolic. Therefore, it is possible to theorize about the effects of the Repressive State Apparatus in the way the inmate subjectivizes herself.