Afasia y negación en las Soledades de Góngora.

Part music, part cacophony, the Solitudes is an anti-poem that speaks while refusing to speak, a sort of oracle that 'neither indicates nor conceals but gives a sign' (Heraclitus). The aim of this paper is to listen to this oracle in a quasi-psychoanalytical way, that is to say, to let it talk while recording its mistakes, its moans, its negations, its silences. The first part of the paper places Góngora's aesthetics of dissonance within the wider framework of the philosophy of Heraclitus and his notion of 'hidden' harmony. The second part studies four instances of 'hidden' harmony in relation to the act of talking, namely: talking and crying; talking and making noise; talking and babbling; and talking and not talking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]