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The Dynamics of Loss: Representations of Sororal, Maternal, and Feminine Loss in the Works of Nerval, Chateaubriand, and Baudelaire

Dargo, Franklin Joseph
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6168-8767
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1595356727134133

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2020, Master of Arts, Miami University, French.
This thesis, written in English, is an analysis of melancholia and its relation to desire in the following nineteenth-century works: "El Desdichado" by Gerard de Nerval, Rene by Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand, and Charles Baudelaire's "L" invitation au voyage." This analysis will take a psychoanalytical approach, and will study how maternal, sororal, and feminine objects of desire relate to the melancholia that is represented on the pages of these works. In order to do so, we must dive into Sigmund Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia," which explains the inner functions of melancholia and the ego contained in all four works. Another psychoanalytic text that will be used is Julia Kristeva's Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia. This thesis seeks to prove that "L' invitation au voyage" is a melancholic poem that is driven by incestuous desires for a maternal figure, as well as a sororal figure, and that the melancholia found in Rene shares similar influences. It will also seek to prove that "El Desdichado" shows evidence of a triumph over melancholia caused by a feminine object of desire. Lastly, all three texts will be analyzed in parallel with Freud's text to demonstrate its accuracy especially in terms of the ego.
Jonathan Strauss (Committee Chair)
Elisabeth Hodges (Committee Member)
Anna Klosowska (Committee Member)
51 p.
Language; Literature; Modern Language
Chateaubriand; Nerval; Baudelaire; Freud; Psychoanalysis; Loss; Melancholia; Desire; French Literature; Incest; Romanticism; Black Sun; Analysis; Rene; Iinvitation au voyage; El Desdichado; Maternal Loss; Sororal Loss; Familial Loss; Oedipus

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  • Dargo, F. J. (2020). The Dynamics of Loss: Representations of Sororal, Maternal, and Feminine Loss in the Works of Nerval, Chateaubriand, and Baudelaire [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1595356727134133

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Dargo, Franklin. The Dynamics of Loss: Representations of Sororal, Maternal, and Feminine Loss in the Works of Nerval, Chateaubriand, and Baudelaire . 2020. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1595356727134133.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Dargo, Franklin. "The Dynamics of Loss: Representations of Sororal, Maternal, and Feminine Loss in the Works of Nerval, Chateaubriand, and Baudelaire ." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1595356727134133

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