Absent Mothers and Orphaned Fathers: Narcissism and Abjection in Lessing's Aesthetic and Dramatic ProductionWayne State University Press, 1995 - 314 páginas In analyzing Lessing's plays, Miss Sara Sampson, Emilia Galotti, and Nathan der Weise, Gustafson identifies the central concerns in each as the mother's threat to the father, his loss, and the dramatic strategies employed to reaffirm his ideal self-image. To battle the mother's perceived threat to the patriarchal order, the father demands an exclusive relationship with his daughter, one in which he alone dominates her development. This tragic and narcissistic enterprise on behalf of the father only highlights the mother's presence and Lessing's inability to exclude her from his works. |
Contenido
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Paternal Narcissism and the Abjection of the Maternal | 19 |
The Mother Within and the Father | 123 |
The Mothers Screaming Mouth | 170 |
Multiple Fathers and Esurient | 217 |
Notes | 267 |
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Términos y frases comunes
admiration Affekt Appiani Arabella Assad asserts audience beautiful becomes Bewunderung Briefwechsel castration characters Conti corporeal eloquence culture and subject Daja daughter desire domestic tragedies Emilia Galotti fantasy father fragmented Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ideal identification imago können Kristeva PH language Laocoon statue Laokoon essay Lessing's aesthetics Lessing's dramatic Lessings Sämtliche Schriften male body Märchen Marwood masculine imagination maternal body Medea Mellefont metaphor metonymic mirror stage Miss Sara Sampson Mitleid mother mother's body mouth muß narcissism narcissistic Nathan der Weise natural Odoardo Orsina pain painting paternal patriarchal patriarchal-Symbolic order perceived Philoctetes play pleasure prince process of abjection process of sympathy Recha representation represents role sacrifice Saladin Sara's Schmerz scream sculpture Semiotic separation signifier signs Sir William soll spectator stage structure subject formation suggests Symbolic order sympathy subject tears Templar text read theory threatens throughout Lessing's Timanthes tion transformation ugly unity Vater viewer visual arts Waitwell Zeichen