"This book is a sound and important contribution to Faulkner
studies. Fowler's reading of the ways that Faulkner's major novels
reflect the tensions of striving for both absence and presence,
wholeness and autonomy, is deftly and persuasively portrayed. She
displays impressive knowledge of Lacan, Lacanian analysis, and
previous Faulkner scholarship". -- Deborah Clarke, Pennsylvania
State University
There have been surprisingly few book-length psychoanalytic
treatments of Faulkner's work and until now none that have employed
the poststructuralist theory of Lacan, Kristeva, and Chodorow. In
Faulkner: The Return of the Repressed. Doreen Fowler uses what she
terms a feminist psychoanalytic methodology to assess the symbolic
meanings of race and gender in five of his major novels: The Sound
and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!,
and Go Down, Moses. Focusing on black and female characters, she
demonstrates how these figures represent psychic doubles for
Faulkner's white male protagonists.
Fowler's reading identifies in these five texts a connection
between cultural and psychic repression. She argues that this
repression of the feminine and the racial other is motivated by the
desire to shore up an ever-precarious ego identity that alternately
desires and expels these "others". She in fact finds similarities
between the writings of Faulkner and Lacan -- affinities not of
approach or method, but of preoccupation. Her feminist reading
attempts to reclaim what is often marginalized by Lacanian
theorists: the important role of the mother, who is the first to
become "other". She exposes the psychic conflicts that characterize
Faulkner's fiction and posits from them anunderlying tension
between desires for difference and wholeness, for the father and
the mother, and for subjectivity and death.
Faulkner: The Return of the Repressed addresses the deep
ambivalence toward women and blacks in Faulkner's fiction and
offers a much-needed response to frequent allegations that Faulkner
embraced white male supremacist values by demonstrating how his
texts expose and critique patriarchal culture.
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