SEXO E RELIGIÃO NA PRODUÇÃO ARTÍSTICA DE MADONNA: UMA LEITURA PSICANALÍTICA DE UMA OBRA DA CULTURA

Abstract

The article addresses aspects of the work from American singer Madonna based on excerpts from two of her tours, namely “Blond Ambition Tour” (1990) and “Rebel Heart Tour” (2015). The tour excerpts are used to support discussion over sexual and religious elements from a conflict perspective involving Christianity through a psychoanalytic method’s reading. Freud (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015), Mezan (2002), Figueiredo (2014) and Minerbo (2000, 2012) are references for the analysis and interpretation procedures adopted here. While the performances yield material for discussion, the element of guilt is used to cast a new view over the work, providing it with novel interpretative perspectives. The psychoanalytic concepts of guilt and uneasiness are used to support the debate and interpretation of artistic material produced by the singer which present varying conflict resolutions for similar situations. Unappreciated details of the work are also pointed out, which may be potential sources of meaning, as in psychoanalytic clinical practice. In one of the works,  there is the acknowledgement of desire and its affirmation. In the other one, there is the alienation of desire in an unaccountability movement. For exercising the psychoanalytic method in the analysis of a cultural work, the study may contribute to sharpen the listening of the psychoanalyst in its clinical practice.