On March 26, 2026, at the “Argjiro” Library of the Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Tirana, an open lecture entitled “Desire Structured by Poetic Language: Pierre Reverdy, Francis Ponge, René Char” was delivered by Dr. Laureta Mema.
The lecture offered an in-depth exploration of poetic language—not merely as a means of expression, but as a structuring force that shapes and organizes desire.
Drawing on a theoretical framework inspired by Jacques Lacan and deconstructionist theory (Jacques Derrida), the analysis focused on three distinct poetic approaches:
🔹 In Pierre Reverdy, the poetic image emerges as a relationship between distant realities, maintaining a distance that generates the tension of desire.
🔹 In Francis Ponge, the description of the object reveals the impossibility of full correspondence between language and the thing itself, placing desire in a continuous relation to absence.
🔹 In René Char, poetic language takes the form of an intense, fragmentary expression that articulates a truth that is always partial and unstable.
👉 Within this framework, poetry does not produce a fixed or closed meaning; rather, it opens a dynamic space of interpretation, where desire emerges as an effect of the relationship between language and that which resists complete definition.
