| Titlu: | Ishiguro’s literary Freudianism |
| Autor: | Angela Stănescu |
| Publicația: | Annals of „Valahia” University of Târgovişte. Letters Section, VII |
| p-ISSN: | 2066-6373 |
| Editura: | Valahia University Press |
| Locul: | Târgoviște |
| Anul: | 2009 |
| Rezumat: | The article argues that Ishiguro’s novels, whose socio-political, historical and cultural contextualizing has often invited interpretations pertaining to postcolonial or cultural theory and criticism, are primarily concerned with the exploration of the arcane processes of self-perception and self-definition, charted at the level of the unconscious matrices conditioning one’s self-consciousness and conscious articulations of identity. The underlying thesis is that Ishiguro’s fiction offers explorations of the human psyche which can be interpreted in a psychoanalytical key. The author aims to demonstrate the indebtedness of Ishiguro’s characterization techniques to the Freudian theories of displacement and repression and the function of these subconscious phenomena as protective mechanisms of the psyche. It illustrates the ways in which the self-awareness of Ishiguro’s protagonists is affected and distorted by phenomena such as displacement, repression and self-delusion, meant to alleviate the consciousness of failure. The demonstration focuses the author’s own professions as to artistic concerns with the psychic mechanisms of self-protection, set in parallel with Freud’s analysis of the respective processes, which inform Ishiguro’s representations of identity, thus justifying a Freudian reading of his work. |
| Cuvinte-cheie: | psychoanalysis, Freud, psyche, dream, consciousness, the unconscious, self, displacement, repression, defence mechanisms, therapy, self-consolation, self-deception, concealment, revelation |
| Limba: | engleză |
| Linkuri: |  pdf |
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