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Like the generation connected with the Lisbon-based journal Orpheu, the group connected with the journal Presença also embraced satire comfortably and understood it as one of the components that most accentuates the critical dimension of the artist’s multifaceted personality. In this article, which seeks to fill a void in the studies of the Presença group, I assert that their satire is one of the processes through which the personality of the poet is revealed in confrontation with the world and with others. But satire and satiric notes are also expressions of the dialogical alterity of an egotistical I-poet with his Id and his Superego (Freud). The satire of José Régio and Miguel Torga is a force that comes from a person conscious of his uniqueness and of his will to impose the sovereignty of his psychic voice on reality or on a sometimes imposing hyper-reality.

Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2019.1608635