Sex, lineage and style in Heidegger’s approach to Trakl’s poetry

Abstract

The present text constitutes, on the one hand, a continuation of a materialistic approach towards the concept of “race”, based on Heidegger’s Black Notebooks, which led us, after recognizing its analogous character to “corporeality”, to think of it not as a naturalistic or biological determination, but as the possibility of an “ontological mestizaje”. On the other hand, “sex”, “lineage” and “style” allude to the polysemy of the concept of “Geschlecht” as a figure of what we have called the phenomenological ambiguity of eros in terms of an “architectonic prohibition and transgression”. This will result, on the one hand, in the priority of “style” as a gathering of the poetic saying in the unsaid of the poem, and not, as we will propose, in the “excription” of a “metonymic transposition”, and, on the other hand, in Heidegger’s silencing of the figure of “incest” in Trakl’s poetry.