The poetic as a trace immanent to the process of subjectivation in the writing of Eduardo Galeano

Abstract

The present article seeks to discuss an inversion of the language axiom, breaking with the idea that referential language would be a universal tenet in which poetic language would fit as a special case. In this perspective, poetic language will not be taken as a privileged language, but as a faculty born with the subject. As an immanent trait of the subject, we argue that unfamiliarity, proposed by Chklovski as a technique that makes the singularization of the image, can be understood as the manifestation of the unconscious and the return, even if momentary, of the subject to his poetic stage. To do so, we will take as a starting point the semiological analysis of Uruguayan Eduardo Galeano’s text Pájaros prohibidos, found in Memoria del fuego III (2013), in dialogue with literary theory and some psychoanalytical assumptions