A Lacanian Approach to the Other in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! and My Antonia

• 발행기관: 한국외국어대학교 영미연구소
• 저자명: 홍승현(Seung Hyun Hong)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미연구』제26집, 155~165쪽, 전체 11쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2012.06.30

영문 초록

This paper is to make a comparison between Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! and My Antonia with an attempt to examine “the discourse of the Other” in terms of Lacanian theory. From one of Lacan’s perspectives, “the other,” Cather’s O Pioneers! and My Antonia share a common ground in each double characters. Alexandra and Antonia, Cather’s heroines in the two novels, emerge as the women with vitality and they are active participants in their destiny. Despite their effort to define themselves through the land, female protagonists have limitations in their desires to experience the outer world. While the women hold onto the farm in hard times, the men like Carl, Emil, and Jim go off to the outer world to seek adventure and the vast knowledge of the world. Female characters, being submerged in the prairie, are deeply repressed because their situation in the land restricts their options to encounter the broader world outside. Therefore, male protagonists embody women character’s repression and project women’s wish-fulfillment. Conclusively, double identity representing mirror-self leads to the consideration of the double, Alexandra and Carl in O Pioneers!, and the other double of Antonia and Jim in My Antonia. In this sense, the human subject is decentered with constant inhibition by the Other.

목차

Ⅰ. The Discourse of the Other

Ⅱ. Repression and Objet a in O Pioneers!

Ⅲ. Doubleness in My Antonia

Ⅳ. Another I in Me

Works Cited

Abstract

키워드

캐더 라깡 타자 이중성 억압 오브제 아 Cather Lacan The Other Doubleness Repression Objet a