Return to "0": A Lacanian Reading of Ingeborg Bachmann's "Undine Goes"

This essay approaches Ingeborg Bachmann's "Undine Goes" from a Lacanian perspective. The object of the study is three-fold: first, to demonstrate Bachmann's deconstruction of the ideal ego through the water-sprite Undine's criticism of the human Hans. Second, to transcend th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Veronica P. Scrol
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 1994-06-01
Series:Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Online Access:http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol18/iss2/8