Symbolic Suicide and the Death Drive in Salinger's

J 2025

Symbolic Suicide and the Death Drive in Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish"

MOKRA, Abigail

Základní údaje

Originální název

Symbolic Suicide and the Death Drive in Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish"

Autoři

MOKRA, Abigail

Vydání

International Journal of Žižek Studies, 2025, 1751-8229

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

60205 Literary theory

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/25:00142258

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

Death Drive; Zizek; Salinger; Suicide; Bananafish; Partial Object; Jouissance; Meconnaissance; Symbolic Order; Lacanian Real; Fantasy; Pleasure Principle; Psychoanalysis; Critical Theory; American Literature

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 3. 3. 2026 13:30, Mgr. Ester Gaja Pučálková, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

J. D. Salinger's A Perfect Day for Bananafish has drawn scholarly attention since its publication in 1948 for its depictions of suicide and mental illness, leading scholars to scan for clues consistent with human diagnostic criteria and affective conditions, like those from the DSM-V. Literary characters fictional suicides, however, are instead more representative of a message or existential dilemma being killed in ontological form; it is the killing of an idea, representative of outward disagreement or dissent, whether expressed by the character or not. Resultedly, suicide colors further readings of the character to the extent that their suicide takes on a sublime status for the narrative, as the initial character dies and takes on a new form, symbolized by the nature of their death. This is the effect of Slavoj ieks psychocultural concept of the Death Drive at work in the plot, operative in the gap between creation and destruction: where the character dies and is simultaneously reconstituted as persisting through their suicide symbolically in the narrative.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1558/2024, interní kód MU

Název: Jazyk, literatura a kultura v anglofonních kontextech II

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Jazyk, literatura a kultura v anglofonních kontextech II

Citovat

MOKRA, Abigail. Symbolic Suicide and the Death Drive in Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish". International Journal of Žižek Studies. 2025, roč. 19, č. 2, s. 1-27. ISSN 1751-8229.

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MOKRA, Abigail. Symbolic Suicide and the Death Drive in Salinger's ''A Perfect Day for Bananafish''. \textit{International Journal of Žižek Studies}. 2025, roč.~19, č.~2, s.~1-27. ISSN~1751-8229.

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