Return of the Repressed

Return of the Repressed

by Rita Oghia-Codsi

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This book analyses one of the many levels of complexity not readily apparent to the reader of Zola{u2019}s fiction: the question of the author{u2019}s family secrets. The novels addressed here present a variety of sub-textual issues highlighting Zola{u2019}s sexual insecurity and anxiety. Their analysis reveals a mystery related to female sexuality that pervades the narratives of Thérèse Raquin and La Fortune des Rougon, and that is silently transmitted in Madeleine Férat, La Faute de l{u2019}Abbé Mouret, La Bête humaine, La Curée, Nana, Le Docteur Pascal and Vérité. The novels are explored from the standpoint of psychoanalytical criticism, a tool particularly appropriate for examining Zola{u2019}s language and illuminating the recurrent theme of {u2018}the Return of the repressed{u2019}. Four psychoanalytical theories are adopted: Nicolas Abraham{u2019}s and Maria Toroks{u2019} theories of psychic development (presenting the concept of the phantom) and Sigmund Freud{u2019}s and Jacques Lacan{u2019}s theories of infantile sexuality.

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