ABSTRACT:
In this article, we pursuit a critic presentation of the tale Sandman, by E.T.A. Hoffmann, inserted on the psychoanalytic universe by Freud, in 1919, in Das Unheimliche. In a first moment, this study presents that literary material, verifying the narrative complexity and the richness of the elements that composes it. After, examining it under the angle of passion, precisely, as a narrative regarding the experience of a passion folly that culminates in a tragicity of that nature. We propose to conceive the psychic mechanism of alienation as intrinsic to the automatism phenomenon, distinctive of a passionate condition. It is possible to establish such process, both in the discursive text modulations, as in the constitution of the characters, more specifically in Natanael and Olympia. From this perspective, it becomes clear the automaton as a figure of passion.
Keywords:
automaton; Das Unheimliche; passion folly; alienation; narrative.