"The Return of the Repressed": Uncovering Family Secrets in Zola's Fiction - An Interpretation of Selected Novels (Paperback, New edition)

This book analyses one of the many levels of complexity not readily apparent to the reader of Zola's fiction: the question of the author's family secrets. The novels addressed here present a variety of sub-textual issues highlighting Zola's sexual insecurity and anxiety. Their analysis reveals a mystery related to female sexuality that pervades the narratives of Therese Raquin and La Fortune des Rougon, and that is silently transmitted in Madeleine Ferat, La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret, La Bete humaine, La Curee, Nana, Le Docteur Pascal and Verite. The novels are explored from the standpoint of psychoanalytical criticism, a tool particularly appropriate for examining Zola's language and illuminating the recurrent theme of "the Return of the repressed". Four psychoanalytical theories are adopted: Nicolas Abraham's and Maria Toroks' theories of psychic development (presenting the concept of the phantom) and Sigmund Freud's and Jacques Lacan's theories of infantile sexuality.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, 35
Release date:	November 2015
First published:	2016
Authors:	Rita Oghia-Codsi
Dimensions:	225 x 150 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	325
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-431982-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > Specific skills > Speaking / pronunciation skills > General
LSN:	3-03-431982-7
Barcode:	9783034319829

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