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- Title
"Families make the best enemies": Paradoxes of Narcissistic Identification in Toni Morrison's "Love."
- Authors
Mellard, James M.
- Abstract
Presents literary criticism of the novel "Love" by Toni Morrison. It examines narcissistic identification in the novel, reflecting on social and psychoanalytic theorist Slavoj Žižek's analysis of psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. Other topics include black subjectivity, aggressiveness, and mother-daughter relationships.
- Subjects
LOVE (Book); MORRISON, Toni, 1931-2019; NARCISSISM in literature; IDENTITY (Psychology) in literature; ZIZEK, Slavoj, 1949-; FREUD, Sigmund, 1856-1939; LACAN, Jacques, 1901-1981
- Publication
African American Review, 2009, Vol 43, Issue 4, p699
- ISSN
1062-4783
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/afa.2009.0087