Antero, ou o Nome Próprio

Authors

  • Joana Amaral Dias Universidade de Coimbra
  • Carlos Amaral Dias Instituto Superior Miguel Torga

Keywords:

Given Name, Death brother Surrogate, Identity conflict, Never ending, Mourning, Narcistic double, Maternal psyche

Abstract

Antero, or the Given Name

Putting Antero de Quental in perspective with Vincent van Gogh and Salvador Dali, a biographical fact is common to all three. All of them were named after an older brother who died while still a baby a short time before. It is as if the brother who came next only existed to perpetuate the presence of the deceased brother, given, in particular, the blend of love and mourning in the figure of the mother. When she calls the name of the living son, it is the dead son who looks at her. This generates a broad conflict of identity and a sense of psychic fragmentation, due to the fact of occupying the place of a dead other, and giving a body to the mother’s desire to negate the death of another son. Who is the person in the name of Antero?

Author Biography

Joana Amaral Dias, Universidade de Coimbra

Psicóloga Clínica. Professora universitária. 

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Published

2015-06-30

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Dias, J. A., & Dias, C. A. (2015). Antero, ou o Nome Próprio. Interações: Sociedade E As Novas Modernidades, (28). Retrieved from https://interacoes-ismt.com/index.php/revista/article/view/355

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No. 28

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