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PORNOGRAPHY AND MELANCHOLY: veiled desire and shamed nudity

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  • Wellington Lima Amorim Universidade Federal do Maranhão, São Luis, MA
  • Claudinei Reis Pereira Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33871/sensorium.2024.11.9268

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the theme of pornography and its relationship with melancholy. Furthermore, we investigate the compulsive effects described in the cinematographic narrative of the film "Shame" (2011). In the second case, the cultural, historical and psychological perspective of the erotic imagination, nudity and prostitution are problematized along the constitutive path of modernity. Pornography and erotic imagination, depending on the way in which we confront our impulses, can become corrosive, but can also become characteristic of human erotic imagination: the permanent desire for enjoyment.

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Author Biographies

Wellington Lima Amorim, Universidade Federal do Maranhão, São Luis, MA

Graduação em Filosofia pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2003), Especialização sobre o Ensino de Filosofia pela Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (2005), Mestrado em Filosofia pela Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (2005) e Doutorado pelo Programa Interdisciplinar em Ciências Humanas pela Universidade Federal de Catarina (2009). Atualmente professor Adjunto DE da Universidade Federal do Maranhão. Professor Visitante da Universidade de Barcelona - UB (2009-2011).

Claudinei Reis Pereira, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo

Doutor em Filosofia – Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6232-8007. http://lattes.cnpq.br/1377457476838013

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2024-06-26

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Dossier - Melancholy and Art