DORIN TUDORAN, „MĂŞTILE EULUI POETIC ÎN «CÂNTEC DE TRECUT AKHERONUL»”
Dorin Tudoran, The “Masks of the Poetic Ego in «Cântec de trecut Akheronul / A Song for the Crossing of Acheron»”

Summary/Abstract: Since the “ego” is only a subject for the writer’s consciousness, it means it is not identical to the totality of the individual’s psychic, a totality that we may call “self”, the one that includes both the poet’s consciousness and unconsciousness. If the “self” appears in an ideal form in the unconscious fantasy, like Faust in Goethe’s work or Zarathustra in Nietzsche’s work, couldn’t we say the same thing about Orpheus and Prince Charming in Cântec de trecut Akheronul / A Song for the Crossing of the Acheron? Without being an imitation of somebody or something, the imitation being only a conscious process, the identification with Orpheus and Prince Charming in Cântec de trecut Akheronul / A Song for the Crossing of the Acheron is an unconscious imitation, a poet’s self-alienation, in favour of his two disguises: Orpheus and Prince Charming. What we intend to demonstrate in the essay “The disguises of the poetic voice in Cântec de trecut Akheronul / A Song for the Crossing of the Acheron” is the idea that, from the identification of the poetical ego with Orpheus and Prince Charming, a secondary identity is born, like Rimbaud’s “je suis un autre”, an identity that we shall call “Prince of smoke”, because the initial individuality falls back into the unconscious

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