O gozo pela palavra nas vozes femininas paraibanas: Amneres Santiago e Regina Lyra

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the relationship between „metapoetry‟ and eroticism observed in the poems of Amneres Santiago and Regina Lyra, based on the assumption that such writings develop the consciousness and dynamics of the literary process departing from erotic poetic signs. As a theoretical basis, we took into consideration the studies of Georges Bataille (2013), Jacques Lacan (2008), Ruth Silviano Brandão (2006), Octavio Paz (2012, 1994) and Leyla Perrone-Moisés (1990), among others whose works combine the fields of Literary Theory and Psychoanalysis, in order to enhance the hypothesis which features both women authors‟ poetry herein studied as mainly recognizable for connecting aisthesis to an individual affective pursuit which we denominate as word enjoyment. Such poems, in their metalanguage, thematise in the level of composition reflections about making poetry that conclude in favor of an overwhelming insufficiency of language, considered limping, slippery, almost assymbolic for the task that both women poets consider as inherent to the essence of poetry: to provide aesthetic pleasure through an identification of feelings between the enunciator (authorial plan), the statement (text plan) and the reader (reception plan). We refer to this last instance, according to Lacan‟s perspective, as to The Other. The dissertation is divided into four chapters, respectively: the first one proceeds to theorization around the notion of word enjoyment, defined as the main category of analysis we propose for this research by performing a theoretical excursion capable of relating Psychoanalysis and the metalanguage based Literary Criticism; the second chapter presents the route of both female author‟s publications focusing on general aesthetic aspects in their language work as well as discussing systematically their creation process; the third chapter analyzes closely five poems of each female author, according to the theoretical assumptions that constitute this investigation; the fourth and last chapter compares both the writings herein studied, defining in the level of metalanguage eight points of similarity between the texts and highlighting, by extension, some aspects that mark points of differentiation between them. Summarizing the results acquired, we can claim that a) the insufficiency of language, instead of an insurmountable obstacle, represents a challenge to be won through the always possible creation of new aesthetical solutions designated to break up the emptiness of assimbolia and of the Other‟s distance; b) the poetry of both women authors, according to classic influences that instruct their beliefs about making poetry can be featured as an embedding of neoromantic and „neosymbolist‟ tendencies, although chronologically they are included in a contemporary urban lyric.