Abstract

LUJAN MARTINEZ, Horacio. "The Ominous" (Freudian 'das Unheimliche') in Ethics as a Literary Self-Construction (on Borges and Cortázar Around the Notion of " Ethical Figures"). Acta poét [online]. 2010, vol.31, n.2, pp.211-245. ISSN 2448-735X.

Our article tries to dialogue with another text published in this magazine: 'Figuras éticas" of Daniel Omar Perez (Acta Poética 27-2, 2006). The article of Perez deal with ethics as a literary construction of the own subjectivity. In this sense, the "ethical figures" would be a kind of characters that, escaping from the prescription and from the universalization of his will, might be constructed to itself. Our reading will add to this "literary construction of itself" the Freudian notion of " the uncanny". Sigmund Freud works on this text of 1919 titled "The uncanny" (Das Unheimliche) the joint sensation of familiarity and surprise that mark some situations. One of the forms treated by Freud is that of the figure of the "double", the itself that is duplicated and that's why "uncanny". We will see in two Argentine writers, Borges and Cortázar, the "writing of itself " as a relation of opposition between literature and life. We think that the "I" is what always escapes in the texts of fiction of both authors, leaving us on the verge of a construction of itself that can never end.

Keywords : ethics and literature; Jorge Luis Borges; Julio Cortázar; Sigmund Freud.

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