This article offers a new reading of Giovanni Pascoli’s poetry and aesthetics through the interwoven motifs of dream, the unconscious, and the uncanny, situating his work within the intellectual and cultural climate of fin-de-siècle Europe, at the crossroads of literature, philosophy, psychology, and early psychoanalysis. From this perspective, it reconsiders a group of lesser-studied texts, true poems of the threshold, whose remarkable evocations of psychic states between wakefulness and sleep reveal a distinctive negotiation of boundaries between the physical and the metaphysical, the material and the immaterial, light and darkness, life and death, the everyday and the beyond, the real and the imaginary, the conscious and the unconscious. Pascoli’s poetics of the depths arises from a heightened sensitivity to interior landscapes and the shadow zones of being, yet it also discloses unsuspected continuities with Nineteenth-century scientific discourse - specifically, with the discovery of the unconscious and its philosophical and psychological articulations in authors such as Eduard von Hartmann and Frederick Myers. The presence of these thinkers in the library of Castelvecchio opens new pathways for interpreting Pascoli’s oneiric imagination and for reassessing his place within the broader European culture of the modern psyche.

Si propone qui una rilettura inedita della poesia e dell’estetica di Pascoli attraverso i temi del sogno, dell’inconscio e del perturbante in rapporto alla cultura europea di fine Ottocento, tra letteratura, filosofia, psicologia e psicoanalisi. In tale prospettiva si prendono in esame alcune poesie oniriche di Pascoli, caratterizzate dalla rappresentazione dei fenomeni psichici tra veglia e sonno, nonché da un’originale congiunzione di fisico e metafisico, materiale e immateriale, luce e buio, vita e morte, quotidianità e oltre, definito e indefinito, reale e immaginario, conscio e inconscio. La poesia pascoliana del profondo nasce da una sensibilità speciale per i paesaggi interiori e le zone d’ombra dell’essere, ma al tempo stesso rivela legami inattesi con la scienza ottocentesca, precisamente con la scoperta dell’inconscio e le sue declinazioni tra filosofia e psicologia, rappresentate da autori come Eduard von Hartmann e Frederick Myers, fondamentali per illuminare in modo nuovo la modernità inquieta del Pascoli onirico.

Baroncini, D. (2025). Sogni e perturbante nella poesia di Pascoli, 36/2024, 9-20.

Sogni e perturbante nella poesia di Pascoli

Daniela Baroncini
2025

Abstract

This article offers a new reading of Giovanni Pascoli’s poetry and aesthetics through the interwoven motifs of dream, the unconscious, and the uncanny, situating his work within the intellectual and cultural climate of fin-de-siècle Europe, at the crossroads of literature, philosophy, psychology, and early psychoanalysis. From this perspective, it reconsiders a group of lesser-studied texts, true poems of the threshold, whose remarkable evocations of psychic states between wakefulness and sleep reveal a distinctive negotiation of boundaries between the physical and the metaphysical, the material and the immaterial, light and darkness, life and death, the everyday and the beyond, the real and the imaginary, the conscious and the unconscious. Pascoli’s poetics of the depths arises from a heightened sensitivity to interior landscapes and the shadow zones of being, yet it also discloses unsuspected continuities with Nineteenth-century scientific discourse - specifically, with the discovery of the unconscious and its philosophical and psychological articulations in authors such as Eduard von Hartmann and Frederick Myers. The presence of these thinkers in the library of Castelvecchio opens new pathways for interpreting Pascoli’s oneiric imagination and for reassessing his place within the broader European culture of the modern psyche.
2025
Baroncini, D. (2025). Sogni e perturbante nella poesia di Pascoli, 36/2024, 9-20.
Baroncini, Daniela
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