At the mercy of the unspeakable: a reading of Ana Cristina Cesar's poetics in sight of the lacanian real

Abstract

Ana Cristina Cesar wrote in just a few years a vast work (approximately between 1964 and 1982), source of inexhaustible interpretation, a mysterious range of intense feelings sometimes disguised between the lines, sometimes shouted out in verse. This article seeks to approach the author’s poetic work by observing the figuration of the Real in her published and unpublished works, over the course of various moments in the poet's literary life, using a volume of Poética, a compilation of her complete poetic production, as a source of analysis. The conception of real used is that of Lacan, supported by readings of the author himself and two commentators on his concept, Badiou and Prigent. The article then starts from a brief presentation of Ana Cristina Cesar, followed by the explanation of the real that is used in the analysis, and, finally, a relationship is developed between the Lacanian psychoanalytic real read in the poetry of A. C. Cesar, through analyzes of six poems from different points in his career, from adolescence to adulthood.