Essays about: "constructed authenticity"

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  1. 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, SOL

    Author : Ulla Kerren; [2012]
    Keywords : Banville; Lacan; Derrida; identity;

    Abstract : 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