Essays about: "constructed authenticity"
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21. "I Really Am a Stranger to Myself": A Lacanian Reading of Identity in John Banville's Eclipse
University essay from Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOLAbstract : This essay engages in a Lacanian reading of identity in John Banville’s Eclipse and argues that the protagonist Alex Cleave illustrates certain of Jacques Lacan’s ideas concerning subjectivity and the subject. Alex Cleave has a fragmented sense of identity and experiences alienation as well as loss and lack of authenticity. READ MORE