Phyllis Van Slyck
Biographic Data
| ID | 1484671 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phyllis Van Slyck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phyllis |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Slyck |
| SIGNATURE | VAN SLYCK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | LaGuardia Community College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
"Isabel Archer's "Delicious Pain
This essay offers a Lacanian reading of desire in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady . Isabel Archer's discovery of love through the ideal image of herself that she finds mirrored in Gilbert Osmond's gaze reveals the foundational paradox of desire and betrays her unconscious quest for what Jacques Lacan defines as jouissance or "painful pleasure." Through her choices, Isabel tacitly embraces the death drive and thus confronts the irrevocable "l…
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"Isabel Archer's "Delicious Pain
This essay offers a Lacanian reading of desire in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady . Isabel Archer's discovery of love through the ideal image of herself that she finds mirrored in Gilbert Osmond's gaze reveals the foundational paradox of desire and betrays her unconscious quest for what Jacques Lacan defines as jouissance or "painful pleasure." Through her choices, Isabel tacitly embraces the death drive and thus confronts the irrevocable "l…
Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Autonomy (1 work) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Gaze (1 work) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (1 work) · Humanism (1 work) · Id, ego and super-ego (1 work)