A mausoleum called desire, a cartography of failure

to Caetano Romão

Abstract

The paper tries to elaborate two parallel movements. At first, I show some of my frustrated attempts to analyze Caetano Romão's book, Um nome inteiro disposto à montaria (2021), as well as the analytical theories to be compared, when the attempt is blocked by third parties, which ends up not reaching a possibility of free thought, and to also give freedom inside the analytical movement, with the theory-object junction itself. In a second moment, I bring the book closer to theories, after a previous abandonment, which seem to offer both the object, and the theory itself, a greater freedom to place both in question, as they join, contaminate and give each other, at the final step, other paths to cross. As those are theories of deconstruction, the focused terms are such as differance, trace, a venir and hostipitality. Trying to demonstrate, during the paper, how desire (between men) is configured in Romão's poems, abandoning that only straight-focused point on violence and oppression, I try to think about the possibilities of other worlds to emerge, as well as other ways of loving, intertwining the two ideas (to live, to love), as an absolute surrender, in the text's conclusions.