The extraordinary in metamorphosis: an analysis of the reconfiguration of the imaginary in the narratives of the Kliemann case

Abstract

The article points out the inferences to which we arrive when investigating what occurs in a class of senses called imaginary, the result of processes inherent to human subjectivity, when materialized in the form of narratives in media devices. The research proposes inbrications between the theories of the imaginary and the epistemology of mediatization, from which it is understood that the sense, once materialized, is at the mercy of reconfigurations according to as historical, social and geographic changes, that insert the enunciator and the interpretant in different contexts. Therefore, what intrigued us was what happens to the imaginary, a peculiar class of senses, when materialized. The research corpus adopted in our investigation were the journalistic narratives of the Kliemann Case, an episode that occurred in Rio Grande do Sul in the 1960s, which were tensioned in relation to a contemporary narrative about the same facts, as a way to verify, in analysis between utterances materialized in different moments, the reconfigurations of the imaginary.