Lívia Godinho Nery Gomes

Semânticas da amizade e suas implicações políticas

The semantic of friendship has been associated, from an historical point of view, to the equality and fraternity ideals. In that way, friendship is thought of within the frames of a familial semantic that associates the friend to the figure of the brother. Indeed, some authors point out to the fact that the familial semantic privileges homogenization processes by ways of suppressing otherness itself. Also, this semantic can be blamed of fostering social intolerance attached to discriminative practices. Therefore, they consider of great importance the disarticulation friendship-familiarity, and try to understand the friendship mostly as a privileged intersubjective relation for political experimentation, for the unexpected quality in the bond with otherness matches better with the difference inherent to political life than equality ideals. Friendship, since it is thought of as an unexpected space of experimentation, brings about the discussion of the possibility of creating new forms of relationship and subjectivity in our contemporary social context, which is extremely individualistic and where the public bows more and more fragile.

Sobre a amizade em tempos de solidão

RESUMO: O presente artigo analisa alguns resultados de uma pesquisa de mestrado que investigou as semânticas da amizade e analisou a qualidade politica da amizade. O artigo tem como objetivo descrever e discutir as implicacoes da decomposicao dos lacos publicos e o consequente aniquilamento do exercicio politico. No liquido cenario da atualidade, os processos de individualizacao e da fragilidade dos lacos configuram a decomposicao do espaco publico e o consequente rebaixamento da politica. O mercado capitalista, ao transformar vinculos humanos e pessoas em mercadorias, tem promovido o esfacelamento da solidariedade humana e das habilidades de sociabilidade. Nesta pesquisa foram entrevistados trabalhadores de cooperativas populares sobre as suas historias de amizade. Os resultados dessa pesquisa destacam que os lacos de amizade podem compor relacoes de acolhimento e comprometimento com o outro, nas quais se vive o vigor da solidariedade. Nao obstante, as narrativas dos sujeitos tambem revelaram a contemporânea fragilidade dos lacos sociais, o isolamento social e o individualismo. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Amizade; sociabilidade; fragilidade dos lacos; individualismo. ABOUT FRIENDSHIP IN TIMES OF SOLITUDE

Implicações políticas da semântica familialista nos discursos de amizade contemporâneos

Friendship semantics has been historically articulated to the concepts of equality and fraternity. It has been characterized by a familial semantics that associates friends to brothers. However, several authors show that familial semantics, based on intimacy and familiarity, privileges homogenization processes and suppression of otherness. In fact, it may foreground intolerable practices of debasement and discrimination of the other. Current essay describes and discusses results of a research on friendship semantics in contemporary discourses. Friendships familial semantics seems to be associated with fragility of bonds and with the depreciation of social skills which an encounter of the other requires.Friendship semantics has been historically articulated to the concepts of equality and fraternity. It has been characterized by a familial semantics that associates friends to brothers. However, several authors show that familial semantics, based on intimacy and familiarity, privileges homogenization processes and suppression of otherness. In fact, it may foreground intolerable practices of debasement and discrimination of the other. Current essay describes and discusses results of a research on friendship semantics in contemporary discourses. Friendship’s familial semantics seems to be associated with fragility of bonds and with the depreciation of social skills which an encounter of the other requires.

Political implications of familial semantics in contemporary friendship discourses

Friendship semantics has been historically articulated to the concepts of equality and fraternity. It has been characterized by a familial semantics that associates friends to brothers. However, several authors show that familial semantics, based on intimacy and familiarity, privileges homogenization processes and suppression of otherness. In fact, it may foreground intolerable practices of debasement and discrimination of the other. Current essay describes and discusses results of a research on friendship semantics in contemporary discourses. Friendships familial semantics seems to be associated with fragility of bonds and with the depreciation of social skills which an encounter of the other requires.Friendship semantics has been historically articulated to the concepts of equality and fraternity. It has been characterized by a familial semantics that associates friends to brothers. However, several authors show that familial semantics, based on intimacy and familiarity, privileges homogenization processes and suppression of otherness. In fact, it may foreground intolerable practices of debasement and discrimination of the other. Current essay describes and discusses results of a research on friendship semantics in contemporary discourses. Friendship’s familial semantics seems to be associated with fragility of bonds and with the depreciation of social skills which an encounter of the other requires.

Implicaciones políticas de la semántica familialista en los discursos de amistad contemporáneos

Friendship semantics has been historically articulated to the concepts of equality and fraternity. It has been characterized by a familial semantics that associates friends to brothers. However, several authors show that familial semantics, based on intimacy and familiarity, privileges homogenization processes and suppression of otherness. In fact, it may foreground intolerable practices of debasement and discrimination of the other. Current essay describes and discusses results of a research on friendship semantics in contemporary discourses. Friendships familial semantics seems to be associated with fragility of bonds and with the depreciation of social skills which an encounter of the other requires.Friendship semantics has been historically articulated to the concepts of equality and fraternity. It has been characterized by a familial semantics that associates friends to brothers. However, several authors show that familial semantics, based on intimacy and familiarity, privileges homogenization processes and suppression of otherness. In fact, it may foreground intolerable practices of debasement and discrimination of the other. Current essay describes and discusses results of a research on friendship semantics in contemporary discourses. Friendship’s familial semantics seems to be associated with fragility of bonds and with the depreciation of social skills which an encounter of the other requires.