La locura religiosa en La vuelta del Cristo de Elqui

In this article I analyze the notion of religious madness in La vuelta del Cristo de Elqui (2007) by Nicanor Parra from the perspectives of literary semiotics and psychoanalysis. I propose that the madness of the speaker allows the subject to survive a traumatic experience and to reconfigure social bonds that collapsed because of its loss of confidence in the values that govern mankind and his surrounding world. Thus, the reference to God is transformed by the antipoetic word to social healing. This dimension arises from the configuration of a subject's extime and as a response to the loss of transcendental aspects that society has ignored. The voice of madness in the text is a way of answering such denial and to reinstall the transcendental in our daily existence.