A FACE IMPURA DO MUNDO: POESIA, TESTEMUNHO E PAISAGEM

Abstract

This paper proposes an analysis of Jorge de Sena's poetry through the pulsating and primordial presence of the abject, understood as a structuring element in the poet’s relationship with himself, the other, and the world-landscape. Drawing from Julia Kristeva’s theory of the abject, the study explores how Sena’s poetry articulates a constant tension between the search for identity and the confrontation with that which is rejected, marginalized, or unsettling. Sena’s work reveals a lyrical self that faces its own dark zones, exploring discomfort and repulsion as inevitable points of contact in the construction of subjectivity. This dynamic of the abject emerges in the relationship with the other, in poems that expose the clash between eros and thanatos, love and violence, attraction and repulsion. Simultaneously, the world-landscape in Sena’s poetry is marked by a sense of estrangement and displacement, where physical and symbolic space becomes a stage for the confrontation with the abject—whether in the depiction of death, exile, or the corruption of human ideals. The analysis seeks to demonstrate how the abject, far from being an element of negation or destruction, is assimilated in Sena’s poetics as a generative force, straining and redefining the boundaries between self and world, human and inhuman, beauty and grotesque. Thus, Jorge de Sena’s poetry establishes itself as a privileged field for questioning the frontiers of subjectivity and poetic language.