Pessoa e comunicação na contemporaneidade

Abstract

"Who is the “ego” that communicates?" - This is the question that guides the context and the research of this proposal about the conceptions of the human in the contemporaneity, period of several historical and conceptual transformations. Starting with the Communication studies, which introduces a scenario described by several researchers, thoughts like: networks (CASTELLS, 1999); cyberspace and cyberculture (LÉVY, 2010); convergence (JENKINS, 2009); culture of participation (SHIRKY, 2011); possibility of agency (MURRAY, 2003); cyborg (HARAWAY, 2009); post-modern and post-humanism (SANTAELLA, 2003), among others. The interest in these ideas, propose the following questions: What means the expression “ego” after Nietzsche, Freud, Lacan, Foucault, Deleuze, and many other thinkers? How the definition of ego focuses on understanding the scenarios of mental, social, cultural, economic, scientific, political and biological transformations, spreading since the beginning of the late twentieth century? What are the implications of these issues in the communication studies? The basic assumption considers that these changes raised other concepts to understand the “ways of being” and “be” of the human species in the here and now, changing the meaning of the word "ego" and of their theoretical intersections (subject, subjectivity, individual, ontology). Supposition embodied by two perspectives: one brought by the theoretical and practical tools of psychoanalysis (in the words of researchers as Freud, Lacan and Magno), and the other extracted from the poetic act of Fernando Pessoa. The first emphasizes concepts such as alienation, unconscious, differentiation and a new conception of "Pessoa" (concept presented in this research). The second emphasizes the ideas of “(im)postura”, “potencialidade”, “experiência”, “genialidade desqualificada”, “não-lugar”, “(des)personalizações”, “eu-ninguém” e “abismo”, ideas that contribute to the purpose of this research before the proposed theme, think the contemporary Fernando Pessoa in relation to currently available communication possibilities. This proposition looking for the understanding beyond the approaches who treats the Ego according the ideas of multiplicity and flexibility of the self and subjectivity; pathologies and behavioral changes linked to communication devices; and excessive appreciation of the image and the imaginary linked to the display and the relationship with the other. The research intended to explain some of the indications introduced by Fernando Pessoa in the early twentieth century, and present how these were taken up and reworked by the New Psychoanalysis (MD Magno), following the ways of being and be (recalling Freud in Civilization and its Discontents – original title: “Das Unbehagen in der Kultur”) of the human species and also bring a better understanding of the complexity of actions, acts, demonstrations and/or communications phenomena of our time.