Abstract:
This article proposes an analogy between poetic function and psychoanalytic interpretation. Departing from the Lacanian postulation known as lalangue, we intend a parallel between this concept and the use of language as it is performed in concretist poetry. Through the literary analysis of two Brazilian poems of this school, Chico Buarque’s Construction and Arnaldo Antunes’s The pulse, we suggest the understanding of Lacan’s assertion (“the unconscious is a savoir-faire with lalangue”) as a consideration of the poetic aspect of the interpretative technique in psychoanalysis.
Keywords:
psychoanalytic interpretation; poetry; Jacques Lacan