Indeterminacy of the literary text: a sociological look at interpretation

Abstract

The objective of these short reflections is to know, within the literary theory of reception aesthetics, the concept of indeterminacy of literary texts developed mainly by the German thinker Wolfgang Iser. The literary text is for this author an indeterminacy that is only determined by the act of reading. That is, in the very constitution of texts there is the possibility of finding empty spaces that must be filled by the experienced reader through interpretation. This concept is taken by Iser, among other sources, from Ronald David Laing's "psychoanalytic theory of interpersonal perception." The purpose is to know in a summarized way the concept of metaperception developed by Laing in his social theory of interpersonal communication and how it is adapted by Iser to literary hermeneutics.