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“O deserto dos tártaros” e “O advogado do diabo” (sobre vaidade e arrogância)

Abstract

The author think to be a mistake, unless under the psychoanalytic point of view, in two pieces of literature, Dino Buzzati’s “Il Deserto dei Tartari” (English version unknown) and Andrew Lederman’s “He imagines that what the romancists thinks to be vanity they really shows examples of arrogance. His arguments are discussed under the psychoanalytic focus and, using the material of the romance and of the novel and some clinical material, discuss arrogance, psychoanalytically, its diference of vanity and the importance of its perception in the material of the patient and, above all, in the psychologic state of the psychoanalyst.