Nothing Left but the Core of Murmurs? Attacks on Linking as Communication in Beckett's The Unnamable

Keywords: attacks on linking, projective identification, transference, Bion, Beckett, communication, interpretation Introduction The knowledge of transference relations between literature and reader is of great importance to psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic literary studies. The idea of projective...

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Published inPSYART (Gainesville, Fla.) p. 78
Main Author Manninen, Paavo
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Gainesville University of Florida 01.01.2022
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Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989)
Communication
Identification
Literary studies
Psychoanalysis
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Summary:Keywords: attacks on linking, projective identification, transference, Bion, Beckett, communication, interpretation Introduction The knowledge of transference relations between literature and reader is of great importance to psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic literary studies. The idea of projective identification - an aspect of transference (Ogden, 1992, p. 69) - in reading literature has also caught the ear of psychoanalysts (Miller, 2013; 2017; Roth, 2019). [...]the narrating voice seems unapproachable to us - though not without an identity.2 Ample research has been published on emptiness and lack of meaning as a central theme of The Unnamable (Parkin-Gounelas, 2001; Brown, 2011; Stewart, 2014), its "palpable unknown" (Abbott, 2013) and its actualisation of "the schizoid voice" (Weller, 2009). In the fourth part, I present a summarising argument of the book and attacks on linking as communication and study the main problem the novel presents to interpretation:
ISSN:1088-5870
1088-5870