THE WORD THAT SPEAKS OF ITSELF: TRUTH OF THE SUBJECT AND OF POETRY

Abstract

The analytical experience is an experience of the word, although language does not sufficiently express everything that involves the psychological constitution of each being. Poetry, in turn, presents itself as a way of accessing the truth of the subject, understood as the totality in which he constitutes himself as a lyrical self. The revelation of truth is the principle that amalgamates poetry with the science of psychoanalysis: it is the revelation of the word through the word. Starting from Lacan’s notions of real, imaginary and symbolic and his assertion that the unconscious is structured like a language, as well as from the premises that poetry is an access to meaning and, as a metalinguistic, allows us to ascend to an experimentation of our own limits, the objective is to analyze to what extent metalanguage unveils the truth of the poetic being, extended to that of the subject, considering the conflict of his subjectivity in the face of what he presents as most inaccessible.