Severing Ties: A Lacanian Reading of Motherhood in Joyce Carol Oates’s Short Stories "The Children" and "Feral"
This paper approaches two of Joyce Carol Oates’s short stories (“The Children” and “Feral”) from a Lacanian perspective on the tripartite structure of personality in an attempt to analyze questions of motherhood and the parent-child separation process. Although published 35 years apart both stories...
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University of San Francisco
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://repository.usfca.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1020&context=jcostudies |