Nudos entre identidad y otredad. Una lectura de El silenciero

Abstract

El ensayo se centra en los rasgos de lenguaje y estructura de la novela El silenciero, de Antonio Di Benedetto, y cómo es posible reflexionar, en diálogo con perspectivas provenientes del psicoanálisis, respecto a los procesos de identificación y construcción de otredades que pone en un primer plano aquella obra y la poética del escritor. Se examinan marcos filosóficos vinculados con el material central de estudio.

This Essay is about the question of the interaction between Identity/Otherness in the novel El silenciero (1964), by the Argentine writer Antonio Di Benedetto (1922-1986). We begin the study from the reflections by J.M. Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz about two kinds of personalities –the Schizo-paranoids and the Depressives- as two extremes in the development of humans. Then, we focus our analysis in the problem of the Other and the others –in psychoanalytical keys- in the fable of Di Benedetto´s novel. After that, we study topics such as the interactions among the “Ego” and others in El silenciero and the paranoid perception of the Otherness in this text. Finally, we address the problem of language and discursive genres, its relation with the subject of Otherness and one possible link to the initial reflections of the text by Coetzee and Kurtz.