S druge obale načela ugode: Ibsenova Gospođa s mora
FROM THE OTHER SHORE OF THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE: IBSEN’S LADY FROM THE SEA
Author(s): Ana TomljenovićSubject(s): Gender Studies, Comparative Study of Literature
Published by: Hrvatsko filološko društvo
Keywords: Ibsen; Lady from the Sea; Pirandello; To Find Oneself; melodrama; sea; oceanic feeling; hysteria;
Summary/Abstract: In the book Thalassa (1924) Sandor Ferenczi constructs his theory of genitality on the analogy between the sea and the womb as our phylogenetic and ontogenetic birth place. Relying on Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920), Ferenczi states that the whole life is determined by a tendency to return to the womb/sea, or to re-establish intrauterine peace and silence. Following Ferenczi’s analogy, the paper explores structural similarities between literature and psychoanalytic theory, and thematic similarities between two plays: Henrik Ibsen’s Lady from the Sea (1888) and Luigi Pirandello’s To Find Oneself (1932).
Journal: Umjetnost riječi
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 1-2
- Page Range: 55-76
- Page Count: 22
- Language: Serbian
