The Dead Fatherretrato del padre en la postmodernidad

  1. Sánchez-Pardo, Esther
Revista:
REDEN: Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos

ISSN: 1131-9674

Año de publicación: 1995

Número: 9

Páginas: 17-35

Tipo: Artículo

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Otras publicaciones en: REDEN: Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos

Resumen

Barthelme's portrait of the fictional father provides a cryptic caricature that oscillates between profoundity and nonsense. Through a psychoanalytic reading of the Dead Father (1975), starting from Freud and drawing from Lacan, I reflect upon the fictional representation of the process of internalizing symbolic authority as conscience in postmodem textuality. This allows us to question father structures in fiction, the issue of literary paternity and even our problematic access to the realm of the Symbolic. This paper is in many ways intended as a reflection on Barthelme's novel and on Roland Barthes' affirmation that every narrative "is staging of the (absent, hidden or hypostatized) father"

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