Historia y metáfora

Notas entorno del "frío corazón" y el "autómata"

Abstract

The essay presents an analysis of the metaphors "cold heart" and the "automaton", as important motives in the poetic discourse of romantic German literature. These are understood not only as expressions of psychological constellations of their respective authors but as manifestations of a more general (and social) conflict that opposes reason to emotion (heart). It is in this context that these metaphors imply a critique to the dominant alienation in economics, social and emotional life. Even though these metaphors do refer to a particular historical horizon (the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century) today they remain present in the comunitary poetical discourse, still implying a critique to the dominant of that same split between reason and emotion in general and specific social contexts.