Imaginários do golpe : análise discursivas de imaginários sobre Dilma Rousseff e o golpe de 2016

Abstract

In this paper we explore the creation of narratives through the symbolic images suggested by the headlines on the covers of the printed edition of the newspaper Folha de São Paulo throughout the Dilma Rousseff’s deposition process in the National Congress between December 1st of 2015 and September 1st of 2016. In order to do so, our theoretical background comes from the Imaginary Studies, which investigates, through Durand (1968; 2012) and Silva (2017; 2019), the construction of reality through a saturation of meaning placed over what is real. When applying it to the field of Communication, we use the contributions of Silva in the elaboration of the Technologies of the Imaginary theory, in which production with a high level of excess of meaning can lead to deviations of meaning. To accomplish this analysis, the methodology proposed by Silva (2003) was used: Imaginary Discourse Analysis (IDA), which, inserted in a comprehensive approach, proposes three steps: strangeness, entanglement, and disentanglement. Thus, we identified eight narratives formed by symbolic images suggested by the Folha de São Paulo headlines of this period: Politics as a dirty game; Economic crisis; Social crisis; Incompetent Dilma; The expansion of the character Dilma/antipetismo; The legitimacy of the process itself/the Congress rite; Justice and the political class; Temer not so consolidated, in which each narrative is composed of their own set of symbolic images.