El erotismo como experiencia radical: Una búsqueda desde algunos momentos del pensamiento latinoamericano

Abstract

This thesis examines erotic experience as a radical form of experience that challenges traditional modes of philosophical conceptualization. From an ontological and phenomenological perspective, it explores how eroticism—understood as excess, rupture, and the overflowing of the subject—resists being fully captured by rational discourse. The central aim is to investigate how such an experience can be approached philosophically without reducing its singular and elusive nature. To this end, the study analyzes selected moments in Latin American thought where erotic experience appears suggested rather than conceptually defined, particularly in the writings of Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Fernando González Ochoa, and Octavio Paz, in dialogue with philosophical reflections on experience in Georges Bataille and Martin Heidegger. Rather than defining eroticism as a stable philosophical category, this research seeks to problematize the limits of philosophical discourse when confronted with experiences that exceed conceptual rationality, proposing instead an understanding of philosophy itself as a form of experiential engagement with what resists complete conceptualization.