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 i...