ABSTRACT
This article arises from a concern about the sayings about woman as regards her societal role of mother. Based on the articulation of Discourse Analysis and lacanian psychoanalysis, our research corpus was composed of headlines about abandonment and infanticide conveyed on news online homepages. Our main objective was to analyze the discoursivization about mother-woman, based on the concept of discoursive generics, and to observe if the analyzed headlines produce effects that may be understood as index elements that The woman, as a group, does not exist. Analysis highlighted that news are events that are beyond the current discourses and are index to be observed, since they point to a shift in contemporaneity. This process confirms the existence of the group mothers-women, at the same time as it marks a puncture in this allegedly homogenous group.
Keywords:
mother-woman; infanticide; discourse analysis; discourse generics; lacanian psychoanalysis
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