Los estatutos subjetivos de la realidad en la obra de Jorge Luis Borges. Una lectura psicoanalítica.

Abstract

This essay examines the concept of reality according to the metaphysical propositions of Jorge Luis Borges as seen in his short stories and poems. For Borges, reality is intimately related to the notions of fiction, dream and oblivion. Therefore, Borges unfurls in his literature the Calderonian formulation that "life is a dream". On the same toke, psychoanalysis explores the issue of reality under the constructions of psychic reality, the mirror stage, and the optica scheme, according to the theories of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. Both in Borges as well as in Freud and Lacan, there is a subjective relationship between dream and reality where one is the reverse of the other. That is, they belong to the same register.