Imagined Edens and Lacan's lost object: the wilderness and subjectivity in Faulkner's 'Go Down, Moses.' (Jacques Lacan)(Special Issue: William Faulkner): An article from: The Mississippi Quarterly

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From the supplier: The wilderness and subjectivity in William Faulkner's novel 'Go Down, Moses' relate to imagined Edens and a search. Jacques Lacan sees a person, the subject, seeking some object to fulfill a drive, but it is the pursuit, not impossible gratification, that drives the subject. Ike in the novel has a view of self that revolves around Sam as mentor, the wilderness as a college and the bear as alma mater. The natural environment and Southern ancestors make Ike who he is. It is traditionally American in literature to seek a purer world in the wilderness, to see a nature/culture conflict.

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Title: Imagined Edens and Lacan's lost object: the wilderness and subjectivity in Faulkner's 'Go Down, Moses.' (Jacques Lacan)(Special Issue: William Faulkner)
Author: Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber
Publication:The Mississippi Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1997
Publisher: Mississippi State University
Volume: v50 Issue: n3 Page: p477(16)

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