Taking sides with the unconscious: in defense of a wild poetry, with Ana Estaregui

In this essay, we propose a reading of Ana Estaregui's poetry (2016/2022, 2022), with Jacques Lacan and Claude Lévi-Strauss, psychoanalysis and anthropology in dialogue, as a work that takes advantage of the unconscious while it insists on a wild thought. The focus on combinatorial strength, on sensitive alliances between words, on repetition as something beyond communication, makes us recognize the impulse inherent to a writing guided by this kind of knowledge that is not known, moving and chaining itself automatically in speech, expanding the sources of the poem. We call the right to return this movement that the verse makes towards nature, that is, to the place where the privilege belongs to the sound, and not the meaning of the words.

Keywords:
unconscious; wild poetry; contemporary poetry written in Portuguese language; Ana Estaregui