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Constructing Identity and the Self: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
Constructing Identity and the Self: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Alice Walker’s The Color Purple

Author(s): Maria-Magdalena Faurar
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universitatii LUCIAN BLAGA din Sibiu
Keywords: self; other; mirroring; desire; identity; subjectivity; Oedipus complex; Jaques Lacan

Summary/Abstract: on simple points in life before major transformations occur. In this sense, for the protagonist of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, the mirror functions as a liminal object that opens the door of her imagination, paving the way for access to a world full of new possibilities and changing her Self into the Other and vice versa. This essay explores the way in which Celie experiences herself through the images of the Mirror Stage, the identity choices of her subjective formation, and ultimately, the resolution of the Oedipus complex. Each of these psychoanalytical concepts constitutes identity situations that are involved in the formation of the Lancanian subject. It is also the aim of this study to investigate, from a psychoanalytic perspective, the conceptual grounds upon which these notions are based.

  • Issue Year: 11/2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 34-45
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English