“É a letra, professora?” Um caminho entre o corpo da letra e o corpo do sujeito pelo gesto da escrita

Abstract

The letter that is made in this research invites us to look and the gesture of writing. Situated in the field of Psychoanalysis and Education, this investigation explores people's relationships with writing and the letter, based on the lacanian concept of the letter (Lacan, 1985a, 1998, 2003b, 2005a) and its materiality. Traditionally, school introduces us to the alphabet letter, moment when we take position, open our notebooks, and hold the pencil for the first time. Just as school letter is born from a gesture, so too is the letter in this work: a trace that persists, even when we try to erase it. The letters of the lacanian unconscious lead us to the letters of people, those who drawn on paper, in the sky, or in rice fields, allowing us to glimpse of the writing subject. Between Psychoanalysis, the poetry that permeates Literature, and the Education that moves me, I enroll myself in a science-poetry that questions how people relate to writing and the letter throughout their trajectories. This research adopts Listening as a methodological field, based on the works of Dias (2019, 2022, 2024), Gurski (2008, 2019), and Dunker & Thebas (2021). Emerging from fieldwork with elderly people from the rural area of Divinópolis/MG, it seeks to understand how the letter mark the life narratives of these subjects. The narratives reveal that letters, as unique marks, go beyond graphic representation, becoming a trace that connects the subject to the other, to the language, and to the culture. This investigation offers new perspectives on the relationship between Psychoanalysis and Education, opening pathways for working with the letter both in and beyond its material form. Through the marks left by the land of erasures traced in “Lituraterra” (Lacan, 2003b, 2005a), the concept of letter-earth was developed, living letters that envelop people and their schools.