Authorship and heterogeneity at Caras’ loving discourse

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to analyze, in context that the womb of French ‘approach’ Discourse Analysis, the discourses about love produced by a national magazine, trying to understand in which measure the authors of this section assume, or not, the principles of authorship and argumentation. Therefore, our intention is to investigate the discursive heterogeneity. Four articles, published in the “Love” section, at Caras®’ magazine, have been analyzed. In some sections, the authors start to mix their personal opinions with their patients’ experiences, based in the practice as psychotherapist. In other cases, they only report their patients’ experiences, keeping a distance from their patients. That reminds us of the discussion about the authorship of the psychological area, which not only must deal with human psychic issues, but must also open themselves to the possibility of placing themselves as co-producers of discourses and knowledge, starting from the dialogue with the other/Other. Thus, the authorship demands of the author a work with the heterogeneity constitutive on the language, as soon as the control of sense and the voices in the texts is function of the author, creating with that control the illusion of textual unity, more than to allow the subject to be answerable for their sayings.