Browsing by Subject "Psychanalysis"

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    La emergencia de la pulsión incestuosa en "Casa tomada" de Julio Cortázar: de la voz al ruido y del ello al yo.
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2019) Fernández Lacueva, Cristina
    The undeniable relevance of space in Julio Cortázar’s Casa tomada stems, fundamentally, from its nature both physical and psychic. The house is, in fact, a correlative of the narrator’s psyche in so far as the invading noises embody his incestuous drive. This paper draws on the correspondence between the parts of the house and the parts of the psyche according to Freudian topographical systems and provides a new proposal not signaled by previous critics: the back section belongs to the superego, the front section to the ego and Irene’s room to the id. This interpretation explores four aspects disregarded by the existing bibliography: (1) the narrator’s defence mechanisms, (2) the origin of the invading noises, (3) the meaning of Irene’s night screams, and (4) the differences between the two characters in terms of narrative voice. A spatial analysis which takes all those elements into account could help to solve the story’s ambiguity.