SENSATION AND PERCEPTION IN THE NOVELS OF HORTENSIA PAPADAT-BENGESCU
SENSATION AND PERCEPTION IN THE NOVELS OF HORTENSIA PAPADAT-BENGESCU

Summary/Abstract: In her first writings, Hortensia Papadat Bengescu displayed heroines with an excessive sensibility, and later, in her novels, this sensibility is driven to the pathology; the lack of feminine components or the gender confusion identity leads to ruining the personality up to the inability of assuming or achieving the maternal spirit. With no vitality, They repress their erotic instincts or emotions and fall ill due to the efforts of hiding their libido. Love itself means only one person’s ability to preoccupy another person’s spirit. Snob, fanatic, androgynous, adulterine, narcissistic, hysterical, the model woman, the inhibited woman, the jealous, they all suffer of an erotic and social frustration. Aristocrats or just privileged, biopsychological predestined, the heroines end up in decline, their filiations do no not overrun two generations. They are shut down both to the outer world and to the inner world, either in the spirit of a modern erotic behaviour that is not matrimonially consecrated, or in the spirit of an institutionalized love, anchored in a seduction game that looks more like a war of sexes. The fine reproduction through psychoanalysis of the liminary conditions between sensations and emotions confers fiction an exaggerated erotic subjectivity, as a configuration of the feminine soul mystery.

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