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Art and the Transitional Object in Vernon Lee's Supernatural Tales (Paperback)
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Art and the Transitional Object in Vernon Lee's Supernatural Tales (Paperback)
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In her persuasively argued study, Patricia Pulham astutely combines
psychoanalytic theory with socio-historical criticism to examine a
selection of fantastic tales by the female aesthete and
intellectual Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935). Lee's own
definition of the supernatural in the preface to Hauntings
questions the nature of the 'genuine ghost', and argues that this
figure is not found in the Society of Psychical Research but in our
own psyches, where it functions as a mediator between past and
present. Using D.W. Winnicott's 'transitional object' theory, which
maintains that adults transfer their childhood engagement with toys
to art and cultural artifacts, Pulham argues that the prevalence of
the past in Lee's tales signifies not only an historical but a
psychic past. Thus the 'ghosts' that haunt Lee's supernatural
fiction, as well as her aesthetic, psychological, and historical
writings, held complex meanings for her that were fundamental to
her intellectual development and allowed her to explore alternative
identities that permit the expression of transgressive sexualities.
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