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Who Are You? The Imaginary of the Retreat of Old Age

Author(s): Catarina Sant’Anna
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
Keywords: Imaginary; Retreat; Old Age; William Shakespeare, King Lear; Ovid;

Summary/Abstract: This article proposes the approach of the imaginary of the retreat in old age and its identity implications. The rich semantism of the term retreat implies different states of mind, different worldviews and behaviours, on a scale between normality and pathology, between self-preservation and self-alienation.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 41
  • Page Range: 127-142
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: French
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