Obsessive Neurosis in Paul Auster’s THE INVENTION OF SOLITUD
Abstract
This essay analyses, from a psychoanalytic view, the protagonist of Paul Auster’s novel The Invention of the Solitude. The death of the father and the relentless reconstruction of his image is one of the central themes of this literary work and of the obsessive neurosis. Aspects of the obsessive discourse such as indirectness, continuity and displacement are analyzed.Downloads
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