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SAONA, Margarita. Motherhood and Paranoia in the Authoritarian State: Reading Eltit through Schreber. perifrasis. rev.lit.teor.crit. [online]. 2012, vol.3, n.6, pp.55-72. ISSN 2145-8987.

The present article explores the maternal body as a symbol that materializes the threat of authoritarianism. Two very different texts, Daniel Paul Schreber memoir, which inspired some of the main studies on paranoia in the 20^th century, and the novel The Custody of the Eyes by Diamela Eltit, present the maternal body as paranoid reactions to the advent of fascism, in the first case, and of a neoliberal regime that thinly veils the dictatorial control of the citizen, in the second one. The split of the ego that constitutes for Julia Kristeva a fundamental part of the maternal experience appears in these texts as the most appropriate medium to reveal and denounce the perversion of two societies under the influence of authoritarianism.

Palavras-chave : Eltit; Schreber; authoritarianism; paranoia; maternal body.

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