Paréntesis para el significado: conciencia y experiencia poética

Abstract

Following a fragmentary strategy, this essay examines the issue of “poetical experience” as an event of conscience. It is argued that the bracketing of habitual meaning is part of this experience. Such consideration has its antecedents in the Kantian terms of beauty’s satisfaction and aesthetic idea. Then, poetical experience is related to the idea of “concrete metaphysics” of Gaston Bachelard, and the term of Paramita used by Octavio Paz. Doing a synthesis of Kant, Bachelard and Paz, the poetical instant is considered as a lapse that suspends, modifies and expands poet and reader´s consciousness by a passage empty of meaning, but full of signification.