Discursos sobre saúde mental feminina: sentidos de ansiedade, depressão e estresse na revista Cláudia

Abstract

This thesis aims to analyze discursively the senses about mental health in the women magazine Claudia during five decades at least from three lexical items: Depression, Anxiety and Stress. The choice of these items was the result of a careful attentive lift of each magazine on the large period between 1963 and 2013. We can call that as an archieve of mental health, in other words, the set of journalistic products and columns that address the theme that we deserved a lexical treatment, researching the frequently terms that its cotexts (a phrasal cut around located make term). These textual extracts areconstituted by a observational basis for an analysis itself. We start from the theoretical assumption that the speech is an effect senses between interlocutors (Pecheux-Orlandi), and as discursive formations are recognized historically and are identified with the subjects (in this case, authors and readers) in function of a complex relation between ideology and unconscious. Therefore, we needed before the analysis itself, get inside the discussion about series of questions as (a) mental health and (b) gender, from authors such as Michel Foucault and Judith Butler. The approach of these two issues in a specialized women's press seems to be our contribution.