The Magic Toyshop as Nucleus of Desire: A Lacanian Analysis
Journal Title: Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature - Year 2017, Vol 41, Issue 1
Abstract
The Magic Toyshop (1967), Angela Carter’s second novel, is the story of a young middle-class English girl –Melanie, who with her brother and sister has to move to London and live with her uncle after the death of her parents in an accident. Uncle Philips functions as the primordial father in the household and does not tolerate any digression or transgression from the Law. This paper aims to offer a Lacanian analysis of The Magic Toyshop by focusing on the major polarity that stands out in the novel around which all the narrative is structured: Desire and Law.
Authors and Affiliations
Serkan ERTİN, Özlem Türe Abacı
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP388455
- DOI 10.17951/lsmll.2017.41.1.73
- Views 69
- Downloads 0
Verifying a holistic multimodal approach to pronunciation training of intermediate Polish learners of English
The paper is an attempt to verify empirically a holistic multimodal approach to pronunciation training developed by Szpyra-Kozłowska (2015). It reports on a phonodidactic experiment carried out with two groups of Polish...
Word association patterns in a second/foreign language – what do they tell us about the L2 mental lexicon?
The aim of the article is to review the findings of research into patterns of word associations in both first and second language and discuss its relevance for the understanding of L2 lexical processes. Word association...
Les Paysages aquatiques de Vera Feyder
The novels of Vera Feyder are concerned with identity, memory, space and travel. In her writing her characters inhabit past and present, dream and reality. In particular, dreams and aquatic landscapes intersect in variou...
Ukrainian obstruent + sonorant and sonorant + obstruent consonant clusters in online adaptation by native speakers of English
In the process of loanword adaptation words often undergo various changes in order to comply with the phonological system of the borrowing language. At the phonotactic level the most commonly applied modifications of ali...
La quête de l’altérité : des stratégies d’écriture
In this paper, we study, in a comparative approach, the notion of dialogism and the manner of its insertion in the text of Sahar Khalifé, Ghada El-Samman, Annie Ernaux and Hélène Cixous. The analysis of stylistic Arab an...