Notes on hate speech and censorship in the theater play The girl and her boy’s shadow

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the presence of hate speech and censorship in the theatre play The girl and her boy’s shadow during its presentation in the city of Campos Novos, state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, from the psychoanalytic assumptions of Freud, Lacan, and his contemporaries. The play presents the story of a girl who uses games to compose her world and her subjective life, however, since there is a diversity in the field of children’s play, the protagonist is intrigued by such variety and its uses in the peculiar time of the psychic constitution. Therefore, the encounter with the prejudiced delimitation was inevitable, in which reigns a way of conceiving the games considered appropriate for girls and in the same way, those that are considered appropriate for boys. This becomes aggravating and astonishing because part of the population of the mentioned city of Santa Catarina manifests disinformation with virtual attacks of hate and reprimands following their political and religious beliefs in relation to the play. In this study, we point out the dialogue around art in culture and its resonances in childhood to demonstrate that children are constituted as subjects by the singularity of their fantasies and desires.