Punerea în abis şi efectele mai mult sau mai puţin fericite ale lecturii
The Mise-en-abyme and the More or Less Happy Effects of Reading

Summary/Abstract: This paper represents an introduction to the reading of a volume about the use of la miseen-abyme in André Gide’s work. At least in the case of this particular author,psychoanalytic literary critics suggest that la mise-en-abyme – along with its typical effectsof temporal circularity, narcissist identification in the mirror, erasing of the boundariesbetween reality and fiction – is doubled by another phenomenon, what psychoanalystsname transference, which is, again, characterized by re-living, re-experiencing emotions,both pleasant and traumatic, generated at some past moment in the subject’s life

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