Tomljenović, Ana.
(2016).
From the other shore of the pleasure principle: Ibsen's Lady from the sea.
Umjetnost riječi : Časopis za znanost o književnosti, 60(1-2).
pp. 55-76.
ISSN 0503-1583
Abstract
In the book Thalassa (1924) Sándor Ferenczi constructs his theory of genitality on
the analogy between the sea and the womb as our phylogenetic and ontogenetic
birth place. Relying on Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920), Ferenczi states
that the whole life is determined by a tendency to return to the womb/sea, or to
re-establish intrauterine peace and silence. Following Ferenczi’s analogy, the paper
explores structural similarities between literature and psychoanalytic theory, and
thematic similarities between two plays: Henrik Ibsen’s Lady from the Sea (1888)
and Luigi Pirandello’s To Find Oneself (1932).
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Article
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Ibsen, Lady from the Sea, Pirandello, To Find Oneself, melodrama, sea, oceanic feeling, hysteria |
| Subjects: |
Comparative literature |
| Departments: |
Department of Comparative Literature |
| Date Deposited: |
21 Feb 2018 17:35 |
| Last Modified: |
21 Feb 2018 17:35 |
| URI: |
http://darhiv.ffzg.unizg.hr/id/eprint/8064 |
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