Beckett and the Mythology of Psychoanalysis - Tapa dura

Considers the relation between Beckett's work and psychoanalytic concepts, particularly those that relate to the mid-20th century's culture of loss. Topics include the enduring infancy and familial mythology of certain of the narrators, the Oedipal thematics of Molloy , the failure of identification with the father throughout the oeuvre, the mythical womb as lost paradise in the novellas, idealized death and the motif of the mutual gaze, and the centrality of introjects in Ill Seen Ill Said . Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.