“Oh, body never fully possessed!”: Eroticism as an expression of the unpleasant in the poem “Venus en el pudridero”

Abstract

The article describes the dialogue between the poetry and thought of Eduardo Anguita and different disciplinary currents (literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis) to analyze a particular conception of eroticism presented in the piece Venus en el pudridero. It proposes an interpretation of the poem that understands eroticism as a point of access to a peculiar ontological reality, representing a radical arrival and opening up to a dimension that remains hidden in the usual course of things. The permeability of this event leads us to propose the complexity of this conception, seen through the presence of the unpleasant nature that lies within this opening, which at the same time as it allows access, also produces an estrangement, establishing a diaphanous dialectical game inherent to the erotic rhythm that is subtly described by the poet.