Between Velásquez and Pirandello: the decentering view of subjectivities

Abstract

This essay aims to analyze an excerpt from Pirandello’s work, in his book Uno, nessuno e centomila, based on the presence of the mirror as an artistic tool to the production of meaning effects and other subjective positions. To this end, we will start from Foucault’s analysis of Velásquez’s work, The Ladies in Waiting, seeking possible theoretical articulations with Pirandello’s work, to successively stitch these readings with Lacan’s psychoanalytic concept of scopic drive. Thus, it is believed that the possible effects produced on the spectator and reader, generated by a mirroring relationship with the work, are made possible by constitutive and structuring factors of subjectivity, which is ultimately based on imaginary and symbolic effects in the relationship with the other.