The “Non-Oedipal Thought” of Gherasim Luca
The “Non-Oedipal Thought” of Gherasim Luca

Summary/Abstract: The poet Gherasim Luca could be defined as the revolted par excellence, as his whole life and creation stood under the sign of revolt, eventually directed against the “oedipal” condition of man (otherwise, in one of his essays, he identified the “non-oedipal” thought with the “revolutionary thought”, that is, with the rejection of any certainty and of any fixed framework). His existential credo, formulated in the essay Inventatorul iubirii (“The Inventor of Love”), published in 1945, was: “Dare to break the oppressing limits that are opposed to man’s total liberation”. And after the ultimate experiences he had always provoked, among which the attempts of suicide described (literaturized) in Moartea moartă (“The Dead Death”), 1945, the poet will commit suicide indeed, by throwing himself into the Seine, perhaps in order to remain faithful to his non-oedipal credo.

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