Real e ideologia em The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the representation of the narrator’s ideological composition in the short story The ones who walk away from Omelas, part of the collection The wind’s twelve corners¸by the American writer Ursula K. Le Guin in order to comprehend to what extent the analyzed text contains a transition between the concepts of utopia and dystopia, how the narrative builds an utopic proposal, and by what means the žižekian view on the Real may contribute to the leguinian studies. To do so, analyses are performed regarding the concept of ideology as seen from the dialogical perspective, ideologically neutral and given valor only when connected to the speeches of social life. The research also makes use of the Circle’s concepts of author-creator, double-voiced discourse, and utterance in order to better comprehend the literary writing process as materializing ideologies from the live social world. We dialogue these concepts with the psychoanalytic studies of the Slavic philosopher Slavoj Žižek. The Slavic author has ideology as a similar concept to the lacanian Symbolic, a layer of distortion on one’s perception of the Real. Although both theories come from distinct areas of knowledge and different premises, through Žižek’s “parallax vision” method, it is possible to attain perspective that contains mutually exclusive points of view. Thus, it allows a better comprehension of how two different theories are similar and or not, an understanding that would otherwise be impossible. Through this understanding, one may trace a more complete reading of the literary object. The analysis exposes through the dialogical mechanisms the manner through which the narrator’s discourses are constructed with the objective of dialoguing with the discourses from social life present in the presumed reader. The žižekian perspective elucidates how this ideological connection deals with the perception of utopia as non-existing in the realm of the Real and dystopia as a passion for the Real.