Mourning and melancholy in the fantastic (graphic) narrative Raiz (2018), by Dudu Torres: an analysis from the Freudian perspective
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2024vol44n2p41Keywords:
Freudian psychoanalysis, graphic novel, mourning and melancholy, fantastic narrativeAbstract
The graphic novel Raiz (2018) by Dudu Torres explores the emotional complexity of a boy grieving the death of his grandmother, set against a backdrop of domestic violence that intensifies his melancholic state. Within this context, the protagonist is abruptly confronted by a supernatural event, which expands the narrative by blending reality with elements of the fantastic. To examine these layers of the boy’s behavior through the lens of Freudian psychoanalysis, we apply three key concepts: grief and melancholy, the double, and the death drive. In this analysis, we discuss how the story demonstrates the ability of graphic narratives to convey complex psychological concepts through the integration of images and words. In Raiz, the boy’s drawings help to express his inner emotions, while the depiction of the double visually manifests his guilt and the death drive. This capacity to translate emotional experiences into the realm of the fantastic through graphic imagery is a distinctive feature of this medium, which we aim to highlight in this study.
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