A Lacanian psychoanalytic reading of loss in Katrina Tuvera's short fiction

• Main Author: Alcantara, Giselle Therese Franco
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2004
• Subjects: Tuvera; Katrina; Lacan; Jacques; 1901-1981; Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalysis and education; Psychoanalytic interpretation; Comparative Literature
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/2130
• Institution: De La Salle University

This psychoanalytic study focuses on the theme of loss in four selected stories of Katrina Tuvera. The Mirror Stage theory of Jacques Lacan is used to analyze how this loss necessitates the formation of the identified Subject's identity. The Subject experiences loss in the Imaginary realm and is analyzed as to how it enhances her growth as an individual. She actualizes this loss through her identified Other/s, and this realization leads to the construction of her identity with her entry into the Symbolic order. The language of the text is analyzed and tied up with the loss that she experiences. Signifiers are identified and interpreted as to how they play an important role in forming the identity of the Subject. The unconscious of the Subject is interpreted using details in the text, to illustrate Lacan's famous assertion that the unconscious is structured like a language.