Teresa Jorge Ferreira is a PhD candidate in Portuguese Studies - Literature Studies at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University of Lisbon and a scholarship holder of the Foundation for Science and Technology, carrying out research into self-portraiture in contemporary Portuguese poetry. She has a Master's degree in Portuguese Studies - Portuguese Literature (Contemporary Period) from NOVA University of Lisbon (2009) and a Law degree from the same university (2003). She was a reader for the Camões Institute in Chile and Spain (2007-2012).
In discussing the title of Fernando Pessoa’s poem “Autopsychography”, this paper traces some of the most significant Portuguese studies between the 1940s and 1990s that dedicated lines or pages to the analysis of the poem. The main contributions considered are from Adolfo Casais Monteiro, Joel Serrão, Jorge de Sena, Jacinto do Prado Coelho, João Gaspar Simões, Eduardo Lourenço, José Gil, Américo Lindeza and Rosa Sil Monteiro. Taking into account several texts, this article intends to present new lines of reading of the title “Autopsychography”, crossing it with the three stanzas of the poem by Pessoa.
