Date of Award

5-2020

Degree Type

UG Dissertation (Restricted)

Department

English

First Advisor

Prof. Eric Neil STRAND

Abstract

Kafka’s oeuvre is a kaleidoscope. It can be read politically, theologically or psychologically. However, the psychoanalytic criticism in Kafka scholarship has gone outmoded that it fails to do justice to Kafka’s works because of its overtly emphasis on the biographical details or Oedipus Complex. In this paper, I am trying to rebut against the traditional Freudian reading and also the Jameson reading with reference to the Metamorphosis. Instead, I propose that one should read not just the content but the form of the Metamorphosis in the style of Lacanian theory.

Language

English

Recommended Citation

Chan, K. T. (2020). The metamorphosis: Competing spaces of psychoanalytic criticism (UG dissertation, Lingnan University, Hong Kong). Retrieved from https://commons.ln.edu.hk/eng_fyp/78

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