Psychosis and Capture: Lacanian Individuation in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man

This essay explores mechanisms of individuation in Don Delillo’s Falling Man“, placing it in conversation with Jacques Lacan’s ideas of ego-formation. It argues that the difference in Falling Man“’s two protagonists’ individuations holds the key to understanding Falling Man“’s critique of the post-9...

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Main Author: Nikhil Jayadevan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Regensburg: Current objectives in postgraduate American studies c/o Universität Regensburg/Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 2015-11-01
Series:Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies
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Online Access:https://copas.uni-regensburg.de/index.php/copas/article/view/243