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

Print

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

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