Dialogue on the threshold and diatribe: construction mechanisms of the individual's self-consciousness

Abstract

This paper is about the dialogue on the threshold whose origins are in the Socratic dialogue and the diatribe (a dialogued internal gender), both understood as privileged mechanisms in the construction of the main character of Dostoevski´s novel Uma criatura dócil [The Meek One]. Its aim is to discuss the materiality of the text – mainly the dialogue on the threshold when the main character is in its existential crisis – and the mechanism of the diatribe which provokethe philosophical dialogue experience that the individual assumes while constituting his voice.

Keywords

• Dialogue on the threshold
• Socratic dialogue
• Diatribe
• Selfconsciousness