ABSTRACT
Edoardo Sanguineti's poetry marks one of the highest moments of avant-garde poetry: it runs through the second half of the twentieth century and it offers a rare commentary on the history of those decades as well as a unique understanding of poetry itself. He looks empathically at the Surrealist dream dimension. In the dream, in fact, imagination itself elaborates its own language, which is always different, according to who is experiencing the dream. He builds an alienated sense of the language, in which the language lives its own life regardless of those who speak that language. Instead, the employment of Jung's archetypes is more subtle, because Sanguineti's intention is not to refer to that psychology as an ideological map, but rather as a code, as a deposit of symbols that needs to be tinted with the correct colours, possibly those of Marxian ideology.
