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- Title
STRUCTURES OF DESIRE AND IDENTIFICATION: A STUDY OF MOTHER-DAUGHTER BONDING(S) IN TONI MORRISON'S BELOVED.
- Authors
Rabbani, Munazzah
- Abstract
The study of identificatoiy relationships between mothers and daughters has acquired tremendous significance in the recent years to comprehend the ways in which culture and racism impact the identificatoiy bonds within family. The purpose of this study is to explore the mother-daughter bonds in Morrison's work "Beloved" through the use of psycho-analysis in order to bring to light the role of identification in transmitting the crisis of subjectivity to the next generation, particularly to the daughters, as well as the trauma and the resultant desire to bring the past into the present through identification with a hallucinatory figure. This study investigates the structures of desire in the mother-daughter relationship in two forms: firstly, in the form of totalising identification, and secondly, through the use of Tacanian constructs in the form of gaze of the past which desires to be brought within the system of signification. This study explores the impact of slavery on the familial relationships as well as the cultural silence surrounding the sufferings of those women ex-slaves who were forced to commit the act of infanticide and the subsequent refusal of the victims to bring that act within the symbolic order of the present. Thus this study reinforces the significance of identification in psychical as well as gender, familial and racial relations. It investigates the impact of trauma on the lives of women who, although, have not directly confronted the experience of slavery, yet, through the mother-daughter bond, experience the collective trauma faced by their mothers.
- Subjects
MORRISON, Toni, 1931-2019; BELOVED (Book : Morrison); DESIRE; MOTHER-daughter relationship; SUBJECTIVITY
- Publication
Kashmir Journal of Language Research, 2014, Vol 17, Issue 2, p139
- ISSN
1028-6640
- Publication type
Article