Essays Tagged: "Symbolic"
Where is Psychoanalytic Criticism coming from? And What does that mean?
onscious behavior. According to Lacan, the human psyche consists of three parts: the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real. While we are passing through the Imaginary Order, one great consuming passio ... he Imaginary Order, one great consuming passion dominates our existence. Lacan contends that in the Symbolic Order we learn to differentiate between male and female. This process of learning gender id ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics
A Lacanian analysis of Edith Wharton's "House of Mirth"
are crucial and equally important to the formation of subjectivity, they are the "Imaginary," the "Symbolic," and the "Real" (1281). In order to understand why Lily Bart continually sabotages her eff ... pal stage." Both of these stages aid the subject in their "passage through" the "imaginary" to the "symbolic." These two concepts are clearly defined in James Mellard's book, Using Lacan Reading Ficti ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American