EMOTIONS, FEELINGS, EXPERIENCES AND NOVELS: ARTICULATIONS BETWEEN PSYCHOLOGY AND LITERATURE FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO CONTEMPORARY TIMES
Historical-Cultural Psychology. Emotion and experience. Neurobiology of emotions.
Long before Sigmund Freud developed psychoanalysis, many philosophers and writers had been discussed the topic of love. Their stories, legends, myths, sonnets, odes on this theme had choked the thoughts of these men who blossomed the desire of the lover to possess his object of desire: the beloved. When we observe the expression of love and in cultures, it appears that this feeling transcends time, immersed in historical, social and cultural contexts, disguises itself with elegance in each era and assumes different guises, but maintains the overwhelming force of providing experiences , which not even death holds them back. Therefore, the aim of this Thesis is to investigate how love was refracted in novels that has marked historical times, from the theoretical operators of emotions, feelings and experiences. Methodologically, the approach adopted in this research is of a qualitative nature, based on the Historical Materialist and Dialectic conceptions, under Historical-Cultural Psychology. Therefore, the study of this Thesis was developed from the plot between the philosophy of Spinoza (2017), Schopenhauer (2011) and Bauman (2004) referring to the issues of affections, the metaphysical relationship of love and the liquidity of the fragility of human bonds referring to the feeling of love; from Vygotsky's psychology (1998, 1999a, 1999b, 2004, 2007 and 2009), notably from the constructs of emotion and experience (perezhivanie); from the neurobiology of emotions and feelings according to the contributions by Damásio (2003, 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2018), Fisher (1995, 2010 and 2015) and Pinto (2017).