Synopses & Reviews
Doreen Fowler's Faulkner: The Return of the Repressed is only thesecond book-length pychoanalytic interpretation of Faulkner's oeuvre and the firstto be predicated on Lacanian theory as modified by Kristeva and Chodorow. Fowlerexposes psychic conflicts that drive Faulkner's fiction and posits from them anunderlying tension between the desire for difference and wholeness, between themother and the father, between the living body and death.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-208) and index.