THE SENZORIAL DISCOURSE IN HORTENSIA PAPADAT BENGESCU, BETWEEN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND ESTHETICS
THE SENZORIAL DISCOURSE IN HORTENSIA PAPADAT BENGESCU, BETWEEN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND ESTHETICS

Summary/Abstract: Throughout the whole Hallipa series, Hortensia Papadat Bengescu seems to reject the solution of harmonization between body and soul, blocking any communication between inner and outer body, her characters cannot live in a unified frame, and they are unable to hear their intimacy. An approach on the sense organs (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching), on the extra sensorial (intuition), and on the elaborated sensorial impressions in her novels offers a better understanding of the literary work and emotions. The sensitivity seems to be dominant in feminine fiction in general and particularly in Papadat Bengescu’s texts. She thought the main aim in art is to share all she has to say to the senses, using the technique of expressive structural motifs, transforming the work into allusions, introspections and psychological revealing. The sensorial is dominated by language and it is decoded through an affective language, since the affect is a condition of speaking. The author was concerned about the language only as a sensitive corpus and disclosed its intrinsic sensorial spontaneity that often seems to lead to heresy.

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