Mimetic desire, competition between father and son and traumatic experience in Ivan Turgenev’s novella “First Love”

Ivan Turgenev’s novella “First Love” in the light of the Oedipus conflict is studied. But it’s done not according to S. Freud’s conception, in which erotic desire is the starting point and crucial aspect of the conflict between father and son. Rather, it interprets the way it is understood by Freud’...

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Published in:RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism
Main Author: Stephan Lipke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2022-10-01
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Online Access:https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/viewFile/32303/21279