The creation of identity through the concept of estrangement in Juan Gelman's poem “Carta a mi madre”
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https://doi.org/10.18537/puc.33.02.08Keywords:
Latin American poetry, exile, poetry and identity, psychoanalytic criticismAbstract
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the different
expressions of the notion of estrangement in Juan Gelman's poem "Carta a mi madre". The context of the Argentinean poet's political exile appears only as an anecdote to set the scene of the poem — the poetic voice receives the news of his mother's death in exile. It is from
this event that the poet reflects on his conflictive relationship with the figure of the mother and performs a reinterpretation of his own identity. The work gathers Lacan's postulates on the conformation of the subject (particularly the mirror stage), as well as others from psychoanalytical criticism, to analyze the bewildering process of detachment-union of the subject with the mother, which in Gelman's poem is expressed in a poetic voice that speaks from a trance between the dark of uterine life and the dark of death.
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