Androgyny's Challenge to the "Law of the Father": "Don Juan" as Epic in Reverse
For the hero of Byron's Don Juan, androgyny—defined in a Lacanian context as the pre-sexual condition of infancy termed the Imaginary stage—is a way of resisting assimilation into the Symbolic order. Thus instead of a tale of male heroism, Byron's poem critiques patriarchal authority and c...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal. - University of Manitoba. - 30(1997), 3, Seite 1-19 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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1997
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal |
| Schlagworte: | Biological sciences Linguistics Social sciences Philosophy Arts |
| Zusammenfassung: | For the hero of Byron's Don Juan, androgyny—defined in a Lacanian context as the pre-sexual condition of infancy termed the Imaginary stage—is a way of resisting assimilation into the Symbolic order. Thus instead of a tale of male heroism, Byron's poem critiques patriarchal authority and can be enlisted in the challenging of the Lacanian model of psycholinguistic development. |
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| ISSN: | 19255683 |