This article raises the event created by the enunciation of Brazilian Supreme Court minister Carlos Ayres Britto's vote. Such vote refers to the recent (2011) homoaffective union issue in Brazil. The corpus of analysis of this work are the (in)direct citations from famous authors (Plato, Max Scheller, Descartes, Fernando Pessoa, Nietzsche, Hegel, Jung, Caetano Veloso, Rui Barbosa, Spinoza, Sartre and Chico Xavier) brought into play in linguistic materiality. We discuss the possible effects of meaning resulting from the citations through the perspective of Discourse Analysis of French Orientation considering the relevant aspects of the conditions of discourse production while exposing the effects of articulation between quotes and statements that circumscribe the vote, parallelisms et cetera. We also launch a brief look over the ethos of the discourse subject from the citation's effects of meaning. Among other avaliations and reflections we conclude that the discourse has love as its major argument, confronting a prototypical Discursive Formation of the judiciary including the references to religious interdiscourses. For our analytic exercise we count specially with Possenti (2009, 2002), Eni Orlandi (2009, 2006), Foucault (2010, 2009), Maingueneau (1997) and Pêcheux (2009), to constitute our theoretical support.
effects of meaning; citations; discourse; homoaffective union