“Portugality”: a nothingness that is nothing

Abstract

Eduardo Lourenço underlined a Portuguese hyper-identity due to a deficit of real identity, which tends to compensate on the imaginary level. But that is not why the essayist invoked “Portugality” to justify it, quite the contrary, as he made clear in an interview with RTP (Portuguese public channel), in which he stated that there was no “the” Portuguese, much less “Portugalities”.