Psychosis and Capture: Lacanian Individuation in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man

This essay explores mechanisms of individuation in Don Delillo’s Falling Man“, placing it in conversation with Jacques Lacan’s ideas of ego-formation. It argues that the difference in Falling Man“’s two protagonists’ individuations holds the key to understanding Falling Man“’s critique of the post-9...

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Published in:	Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies
Main Author:	Nikhil Jayadevan
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Regensburg: Current objectives in postgraduate American studies c/o Universität Regensburg/Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 2015-11-01
Subjects:	Falling Man Don DeLillo Individuation Jacques Lacan September 11
Online Access:	https://copas.uni-regensburg.de/index.php/copas/article/view/243