The Living Mirror

This book identifies a corpus of British and Polish texts that share correspondences with reference to the themes of feminine doubling, the difficulty of asserting feminine subjectivity, sexual mother-figures and symbolic father-figures. It draws on the Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis and the French feminist uses of it known as écriture feminine.

Autorentext

Klara Naszkowska completed her PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Edinburgh and holds MA in Polish Philology from the University of Warsaw. Her research interests lie in the area of psychoanalysis, 19th century women's prose and feminist critique. She has published in academic journals and collective books in Poland and abroad.

Inhalt
Contents: Psychoanalysis Comparative Literature Polish Literature British Literature Women's Writing Ècriture féminine Reinterpretation Doppelganger Feminine sexuality Feminine subjectivity Mother-figures Daughter-figures Father-figures Destruction Eros and Thanatos Sex and death drive Sigmund Freud Jacques Lacan Luce Irigaray Hélène Cixous Sabina Spielrein Charlotte Brontë Daphne du Maurier Narcyza michowska Maria Konopnicka Zofia Nakowska Maria Komornicka.