“Where were you so long?”: From Meaning to Being in the Mother-imago in Jibanananda Das’s “Banalata Sen”
In the light of Lacanian dichotomy of “Being” and “Meaning,” the present article intends to illuminate how the protagonist’s journey of life in Jibanananda Das’s masterwork “Banalata Sen” (1942) proves to be a retreat to the Jungian “mother-imago.” This “imago” is the idealized image of the mother c...
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Taylor & Francis Group
2022-01-01
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| Series: | Comparative Literature: East & West |
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| Online Access: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/25723618.2022.2081426 |