A ESCRITA DO FEMININO EM ANAÏS NIN

Abstract

The intent of this work is to investigate if there is in the literature a feminine language, exploring the relation between the feminine and the writing in Anais Nin works. For that we will do a documental research of some of the writer registers. We start from the idea placed by Anais, on which women didn´t knew how to write about their experiences when it came down to sexuality. Women used so far, a masculine language, model for a genre, on which there is no sex poetry. About that women would be more apt to write than men, because, they knew well how to fuse sex with the emotion, the feeling and the desire. We will take a trip through psychoanalysis taking in consideration the obscurity around feminility, seen as a “black continent” and the relation between enjoyment (jouissance) and the word. In the autobiographic writings of Anais, it comes to light a intimate relationship with the words, trying to border something of the corporal enjoyment (jouissance). Starting with another way of living your sexuality, she delimitates a difference on writing. Would this be a feminine writing? The position of being a woman that can come from her own body, makes it possible a writing of the feminine? From the work of Anais one could think in a difference on masculine literature and on feminine literature when it comes to erotism. While masculine literature walks through the falic dimension, the feminine walks over a dimension of another enjoyment (jouissance), it´s a writing that´s in relation with the pulsional field.