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- Title
La otredad en El arco y la lira de Octavio Paz.
- Authors
Sörstad, Fredrik
- Abstract
The aim of this article is to carry out a study on the theory of otherness in three essays from the book El arco y la lira by Octavio Paz: "La otra orilla", "La inspiración" and "Los signos en rotación". Given that the otherness is a philosophical problem that dates back to ancient times, a theoretical frame was included in order to expose a background, adopt a methodology and formulate a hypothesis regarding the characteristics of Paz' theory. The hypothesis suggests that a certain affinity can be found with Hegel's dialectics in that for Paz the search for otherness is a dialectical process between being and non-being, between the self and the non-self (the other), and later on this supposition was confirmed in the analysis. Furthermore, three different and complementary visions on otherness were found in the three essays: In "La otra orilla", Paz argues that the poetic revelation is similar to the religious one insofar as it entails an act of "plunging into the other"; in "La inspiración", he adopts a surrealist perspective, according to which the poetic experience implies a "fusion with the other"; and, finally, in "Los signos de rotación", most similarities with Hegel were disclosed, especially when Paz suggests that the other should be associated with "being as change", rejecting the traditional idea of "death".
- Subjects
PAZ, Octavio, 1914-1998; HYPOTHESIS; HEGEL, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831; REVELATION; ESSAYS; SELF; VISION; DIALECTIC; SIMILARITY (Psychology); DIALECTICAL behavior therapy
- Publication
Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana, 2019, Vol 48, p315
- ISSN
0210-4547
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5209/alhi.66786