Raúl Antelo and the Orphic writing of Clarice

Abstract

The work shows the close relationship between the notion of emptiness and the theme of the feminine theorized by psychoanalysis. To do so, it addresses some texts of Clarice Lispector having as a guiding thread the analyzes that the literary critic Raúl Antelo makes of some of its texts. It is intended to point out that for Antelo, Clarice’s work is an Orphic writing, which saves its object in that it renounces it. In Clarice, the text is taken as an end in itself, which arises from a creative power, a subjective position that instead of seeking to suture the void of meaning, seeks to take it as an impulse to transfigure what in life escapes to the sense, celebrating an ethics of tragic orientation that impels it the creation of new senses.

Keywords

• Raúl Antelo
• Clarice Lispector
• Feminino