A Lacanian psychoanalytic reading of loss in Katrina Tuvera's short fiction
Date of Publication
2004
Document Type
Bachelor's Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts in Literature
Subject Categories
Comparative Literature
College
College of Liberal Arts
Department/Unit
Literature
Thesis Adviser
Gerardo Torres
Defense Panel Chair
Paz Verdades Santos
Defense Panel Member
Marjorie Evasco
Ma.Teresa Wright
Abstract/Summary
This psychoanalytic study focuses on the theme of loss in four selected stories of Katrina Tuvera. The Mirror Stage theory of Jacques Lacan is used to analyze how this loss necessitates the formation of the identified Subject's identity. The Subject experiences loss in the Imaginary realm and is analyzed as to how it enhances her growth as an individual. She actualizes this loss through her identified Other/s, and this realization leads to the construction of her identity with her entry into the Symbolic order. The language of the text is analyzed and tied up with the loss that she experiences. Signifiers are identified and interpreted as to how they play an important role in forming the identity of the Subject. The unconscious of the Subject is interpreted using details in the text, to illustrate Lacan's famous assertion that the unconscious is structured like a language.
Abstract Format
html
Language
English
Format
Accession Number
TU13740
Shelf Location
Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall
Physical Description
[6], 60 leaves ; 28 cm.
Keywords
Tuvera; Katrina; Lacan; Jacques; 1901-1981; Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalysis and education; Psychoanalytic interpretation
Recommended Citation
Alcantara, G. F. (2004). A Lacanian psychoanalytic reading of loss in Katrina Tuvera's short fiction. Retrieved from https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/2130