The management of (in)security in view of the (de)structuring of social ties in O som ao redor

Abstract

Grounded on the theoretical framework of materialist Discourse Analysis, in articulation with Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis, this article analyzes the management of (in)security through (non)relationships with alterity in the film O som ao redor. The analytical gesture focuses on the
participation of infantile characters in daily violence within their familiar and social circuits. Regarding a social structure continuously (un)tied, forms of discursive materialization of (in)security in the filmic materiality are thematized. Through the analytical trajectory, limit-scenes are outlined,
which catalyze conflicts culminating in a violent relation to the (O)other. As a threatening presence, alterity disturbs the apparently stable social weaving and points to the insecurity that is not only directed outwards, but one that constitutes from within.