The Magic Toyshop as Nucleus of Desire: A Lacanian Analysis

• Authors: Serkan Ertin , Özlem Türe Abacı
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The Magic Toyshop (1967), Angela Carter’s second novel, is the story of a young middle-class English girl –Melanie, who with her brother and sister has to move to London and live with her uncle after the death of her parents in an accident. Uncle Philips functions as the primordial father in the household and does not tolerate any digression or transgression from the Law. This paper aims to offer a Lacanian analysis of The Magic Toyshop by focusing on the major polarity that stands out in the novel around which all the narrative is structured: Desire and Law.

DE

Der Band enthält die Abstracts ausschließlich in englischer Sprache.

FR

Le numéro contient uniquement les résumés en anglais.

RU

Том не содержит аннотаций на английском языке.

Keywords

EN

the Magic Toyshop; Angela Carter; Lacan

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FR

RU

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
• Journal: Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2017

online

2017-07-04

Contributors

author

Serkan Ertin

author

Özlem Türe Abacı

References

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Identifiers

DOI

10.17951/lsmll.2017.41.1.73