The Aphanisis of the Pirandellian Subject.
Although Pirandello's oeuvre is very much open to a psychoanalytical reading, to date few have studied it in terms of Lacanian psychoanalysis. This article analyses Pirandello's Enrico IV and Uno, nessuno e centomila in the light of Lacan's theory of the subject. It demonstrates how both Pirandello'...
| Published in: | Italian Studies Vol. 68; no. 1; pp. 123 - 138 |
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| Format: | Literary Criticism |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2013
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| Summary: | Although Pirandello's oeuvre is very much open to a psychoanalytical reading, to date few have studied it in terms of Lacanian psychoanalysis. This article analyses Pirandello's Enrico IV and Uno, nessuno e centomila in the light of Lacan's theory of the subject. It demonstrates how both Pirandello's and Lacan's notions of subject rely on a paradoxical Aphanisis (disappearance) of subjectivity itself: according to both authors there is no subjectivity outside of otherness, or outside of the maschere created by the Other through which the subject is alienated. |
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