Abstract
In this article the Theory of Abjection presented by Julia Kristeva in her book 'Powers of Horror' (1988) is applied to the poetic works of Ana Maria Martinez Sagi (1907-2000), particularly to her collection of poems 'Inquietud' (1932). The arrival of the avant-garde and psychoanalysis to Spain in the first third of the 20th century allows analysing the presence of a specific aspect of the authorial identity which is common in the aesthetic modernity. We go through the psychoanalitical theories by Sigmund Freud, Ernst Kris and Julia Kristeva in order to understand the connection between art and psychoanalysis, taking this discipline as an effective tool for textual analysis because of its study of the humang being. The analysis of this presence in her poetry is interesting for two reasons above all: because we understand better the poet's works, yet poorly studied despite her interesting resume, and because we can analyse the influence of the restraint in her artistic work, and thus, better understand her writing mechanism
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