Un final feliz : literary criticism, between the end of analysis and the end of literature

Abstract

The present study introduces a survey of two different critical approaches to the work of Gabriela Liffschitz –precisely, articles by Paola Cortés Rocca and Alberto Giordano–, as well as the theoretical frames with which they dialogue, in order to highlight their explanatory inadequacies. Then, an interdisciplinary intersection with psychoanalytic theory is proposed, which enables critical considerations able to approach the productions in question, as well as to give an approach of its own epistemological presuppositions and to delimitate the literary specificity of its object of study. Around the concept of sublimation, according to Leo Bersani and Carlos Kuri, first, and to the aesthetic-lacanian considerations of Massimo Recalcati, then, a critical path is drawn, which finds, in the singularity of each text and photographic series, a properly literary way of questioning an intermedial artistic practice like Liffschitz’s. Finally, the notion of author iconography, by Jean-Luc Nancy, allows a conclusive synthesis of the conceptual reflections traced during the study.